Phenakistiscope Disc with Geometric Shapes

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Object Details

Designer
Josef Bermann, Austrian, 1810 - 1866
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Paper disc with a hole in the center, 10 rectangular perforations evenly spaced along perimeter for viewing. In the outermost ring, several still images show a small black circle passing forward over a red and white circle. In the innermost ring, a black and yellow circle rotate around the edges of a blue and red layered star.
Credit Line
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane
ca. 1840
Accession Number
1948-124-4
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
toys & games
Object Name
Optical toy
Type
Optical toy
Medium
Hand-colored lithograph on paperboard
Dimensions
H x diam.: 25 × 25 cm (9 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
made in
Vienna, Austria
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Record ID
chndm_1948-124-4
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4a7a321a5-f882-4444-956b-32ba206b2407
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