William Horner - Pioneer

William George Horner was known for inventing the zoetrope, aswell as being a successful British Mathematician.

William based his invention on the phenakistoscope which therefore later made joseph plateau’s invention unsuccessful. The difference between Williams zoetrope and josephs phenakistoscope, Was that the zoetrope did not require a viewing mirror. The second improvement of the zoetrope was that more than one person could view the moving pictures at the same time.

 The zoetrope  works from a drum with an open top, the drum is spun, which creates an illusion of movement, the faster the spin, the smoother the image you see will be. However, if the drum is spun too fast, the image the viewer will see, would be a blur, so they would therefore not be able to see it.

Here is a video of a zoetrope and a demonstration of how it works: