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John Barnes Linnett (born c. 1831 – 9 October 1870) [1] was a British lithograph printer based in Birmingham, England. Although the French Pierre-Hubert Desvignes is generally credited with being the inventor of the flip book , Linnett was the first to patent the invention, in 1868, under the name of kineograph .
In 1868, the Birmingham-based printer John Barnes Linnett received the first patent for the flip book. He gave the name kineograph to his device. [3] [4] A flip book is a small book with relatively springy pages, each having one in a series of animation images located near its unbound edge. The user bends all of the pages back, normally with ...
A flip book, flipbook, [1] flicker book, or kineograph is a booklet with a series of images that very gradually change from one page to the next, so that when the pages are viewed in quick succession, the images appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change. Often, flip books are illustrated books for children, but may also be ...
John Barnes Linnett patented the first flip book in 1868 as the kineograph. [42] [43] A flip book is a small book with relatively springy pages, each having one in a series of animation images located near its unbound edge. The user bends all of the pages back, normally with the thumb, then by a gradual motion of the hand allows them to spring ...
The phenakistiscope, zoetrope, praxinoscope and flip book a.o. are often seen as precursors of film, leading to the invention of cinema at the end of the 19th century. In the 21st century, this narrow teleological vision was questioned and the individual qualities of these media gained renewed attention of researchers in the fields of the ...
In 2016, an inside-out variation of the zoetrope was invented and patented with the name Silhouette Zoetrope. [54] The device was invented by the researcher Dr. Christine Veras, and it won third place in the Best Illusion of the Year Contest, paying homage to the classical zoetrope but displaying a unique combination of optical illusions. [55]
Phonographic recording of sound was invented in the 19th century. Photographic film was created in the 19th century. The crucial invention of celluloid was made in 1855 by Alexander Parkes, a substance he initially called Parkesine. This was marketed from 1869 by John and Isaiah Hyatt.
An 1899 trade advertisement Mutoscope at Herne Bay Museum Mutoscope in San Francisco antique arcade Mutoscope: "Mechanical Maniacs" video.. The Mutoscope is an early motion picture device, invented by W. K. L. Dickson and Herman Casler [1] and granted U.S. patent 549309A to Herman Casler on November 5, 1895. [2]