Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 437
on holding the devil by the tail, arobber coming out of a box, and a sportsman firing at a 8o OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. bird. The extremes of the movement are right and left;the intermediary figures make the transitions, and theyare usually equal in number to the slits in the Zootrope,It is not difficult… … Plateaus Phenokistoscope {see page 63). given, and thus the Zootrope might be quite a vehicle ofinstruction as well as of amusement. This instrument iscertainly one of the most curious in the range of optics,and never fails to excite interest. The ingenious con-trivances which have up to the…
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