About the same time, the author had also turned his attention towards the subject, and had practically experienced the difficulty of obtaining together the phenakistiscopic and stereoscopic effects without similar defects.
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Phenakistiscopic
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[Franz von] Uchatius’ experiments with lanterns continued, and by 1853 he had developed a Projecting Phenakistiscope, combining a phenakistiscopic disc with a single magic lantern.
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These were the images of course that Muybridge animated using the zoopraxiscope and of which he tried – it seems rather unsuccessfully – to sell engravings, mounted on phenakistiscopic discs, in his hall at the base of the Ferris wheel (Haas 1976: 176).
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