Index

  • A
  • Acres, Birt, 152, 154, 176.
  • After-images, 18, 45.
  • Aguilon, François d’, 46, 47, 109, 166.
  • Ailly, Pierre d’, 26.
  • Alberti, Leone Battista, 30, 31, 38, 41, 65, 165.
  • Albertus Magnus, St., 32, 164.
  • Alhambra Theatre, 153.
  • Alhazen, 13, 21–23, 26, 31, 161, 164.
  • Alkindi, 164.
  • Almeida, 172.
  • American Mutoscope (& Biograph) Company, 141, 158.
  • Amet, Edwin Hill, 176.
  • Angiers, 172.
  • Animatograph, 153.
  • Anorthoscope, 94, 96.
  • Anschütz, Ottomar, 126, 134, 139, 143, 146, 147, 154–156, 174, 176.
  • Appleton, 176.
  • Archer, Frederick Scott, 112, 116.
  • Archimedes, 13, 18–22, 39, 63, 77, 103, 161, 163.
  • Aristotle, 13, 17, 18, 21, 22, 32, 64, 161, 163.
  • Armat, Thomas, 11, 154–160, 176.
  • Arzonis, Pierro de, 40.
  • Averroës, 164.
  • Avias & Hoffman, 176.
  • Avicenna, 164.
  • B
  • Babbage, Charles, 84, 169.
  • Bacon, Roger, 23, 24–28, 32–34, 38, 45, 68, 161, 164.
  • Banks, Joseph, 84.
  • Barbaro, Daniello, 39, 41, 166.
  • Barberini, Francesco Cardinal, 10, 51, 57.
  • Baron, Auguste, 176.
  • Baxter & Wray, 176.
  • Bayard, Hippolyte, 170.
  • Beale, Lionel Smith, 172, 173.
  • Bedts, Rider de, 176.
  • Benedetti, Giovanni Battista, 39–41, 166.
  • Bets, 176.
  • Bial, Albert, 11. See also Koster & Bial’s Music Hall.
  • Bio-Phantoscope, 141.
  • Biograph, 158.
  • Bioscope:
  • Demeny’s, 145;
  • Duboscq’s, 109;
  • Foucauld’s, 172;
  • Paul’s, 176.
  • Bjerknes, 124.
  • “Black Art.” See Necromancy.
  • Blair Company, 153.
  • Bliss School of Electricity, 154.
  • Boethius, 164.
  • Bouly, Léon, 150.
  • Bourbouze, 121, 172.
  • Boyle, Robert, 167.
  • Brahe, Tycho, 43.
  • Brewster, David, 83, 169, 171.
  • Briggs, Caspar W., 112, 114, 173.
  • Brown, Arthur, 120.
  • Brown, F., 176.
  • Brown, O. B., 112, 113, 172.
  • Brun, 176.
  • Burning Glasses, 19–21, 63, 65, 103, 163.
  • C
  • Cagliostro, Alessandro conte di, 76.
  • Calotype. See Talbot calotype process.
  • Camera: See also Camera lucida and Camera obscura;
  • “battery system” (Muybridge-Isaacs), 120, 122, 126, 127, 173;
  • motion picture, 116, 117, 125, 126, 129, 133, 136, 141, 150–153, 155, 157, 158, 174, 175, 176;
  • portable, 45, 46, 143, 145, 146, 152, 167, 168;
  • with microscope, 145;
  • with projector, 142, 143.
  • Camera lucida, 30, 38, 39, 65, 167, 169. See also Camera.
  • Camera obscura, 26, 29–31, 33–45, 53, 73, 107, 165, 166, 170. See also Camera.
  • Carbutt, John, 133, 174.
  • Cardano, Girolamo, 20, 34, 35, 165.
  • Carpentier, Jules, 150, 176.
  • Case, Theodore, 160.
  • Casler, Herman, 157.
  • Cave of Font-de-Faune. See Font-de-Faune, Cave of.
  • Cercle de Gymnastique Rationnelle, 125.
  • Cesariano, Cesare, 32–34, 165.
  • Chales, Claude François Milliet de, 58, 62, 64–66, 68, 69, 167.
  • Charles, Jacques Alexandre César, 168.
  • Cheri-Rousseau, 176.
  • Chevalier, Albert, 159.
  • Chicago World’s Fair. See Expositions.
  • Chinese Shadow Plays. See Shadow Plays.
  • Choreutoscope, 173.
  • Choreutoscope Tournant, 172.
  • Chronophotographe, 143.
  • Chronophotography, 116, 126, 174.
  • Cinématographe, 150–151, 175.
  • Cinematoscope, 154. See also Kinematoscope.
  • Clarke, E. M., 170.
  • Claudet, Antoine François Jean, 110, 111, 171.
  • Clement & Gilmer, 176.
  • Collegio Romano, 9, 10, 46, 51, 59, 60, 63.
  • Color Perception, 88.
  • Color Photography, 117, 143, 157.
  • Color Printing, 117.
  • Color Projection. See Projection.
  • Continsouza, Pierre Victor, 176.
  • Cook and Bonelli, 172.
  • Cotton States Exposition. See Expositions.
  • Croft, W. C., 139, 175.
  • Crookes, 124.
  • Cruikshank, George, 81.
  • D
  • Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 106, 109, 141, 170.
  • Daguerreotype, 107, 108, 110.
  • D’Aguilon, François. See Aguilon, François d’.
  • D’Ailly, Pierre. See Ailly, Pierre d’.
  • Danti, E., 39.
  • Da Vinci, Leonardo. See Vinci, Leonardo da.
  • Day, Wilfred, 144.
  • Dealers, commercial, 69, 102, 137, 158.
  • De Bedts, Rider. See Bedts, Rider de.
  • De Chales, Claude François Milliet. See Chales, Claude François Milliet de.
  • De Forest, Lee, 160.
  • Della Porta, Giovanni Battista. See Porta, Giovanni Battista della.
  • Demeny, Georges, 125, 133, 139, 145, 146, 150, 176.
  • De Moland, Humbert. See Moland, Humbert de.
  • Desvignes, Pierre Hubert, 171.
  • De Valesius, George. See Valesius, George de.
  • Diaphragm, 39.
  • Dickson, Antonia, 137.
  • Dickson, William Kennedy Laurie, 133, 134, 136, 137, 157, 158, 174.
  • Disks: See also Phénakisticope;
  • glass, 128;
  • magic, see Plateau-Stampfer Magic Disks;
  • mica, 114;
  • Plateau-Stampfer, see Plateau-Stampfer Magic Disks;
  • revolving, see Revolving Disks;
  • zinc shutter, 128.
  • Disney, Walt, 14, 153.
  • Dom-Martin, 176.
  • Donisthorpe, Wordsworth, 130, 131, 139, 140, 146, 148, 152, 173, 175.
  • Drumont, 176.
  • Dry-plate Photography. See Photography.
  • Duboscq, Jules, 109, 110, 170, 171.
  • Du Hauron, Louis Ducos, 117, 118, 172.
  • Duhousset, Col., 116.
  • Dumont, Thomas Hooman, 171.
  • Duval, Mathias, 116, 125.
  • E
  • Eames, Owen A., 176.
  • Eastman, George, 130, 134, 140, 150, 174, 175.
  • Edison, Thomas Alva, 12, 61, 102, 126, 128–138, 141, 143, 145, 146, 148, 149, 154, 157–161, 173–175.
  • Edgeworth, Maria, 81.
  • Eidoloscope, 157.
  • Electrical Tachyscope, 127, 134, 139, 154–156, 174.
  • English Mirrors. See Mirrors.
  • Euclid, 21, 163.
  • Euler, Leonhard, 168.
  • Evans, Mortimer, 139, 142, 148, 175.
  • Expositions:
  • Chicago World’s Fair, 127, 136, 154;
  • Cotton States, 155;
  • Paris—1889, 128, 134;
  • Works of All Nations, 108–110.
  • F
  • Fantascope, 78, 93, 94, 96, 109, 170. See also Phantoscope and Phénakisticope.
  • Faraday, Michael, 87, 91, 92, 94, 95, 109, 111, 170.
  • Film: See also Eastman and Goodwin;
  • celluloid, 133, 142, 144, 147, 150, 172, 174;
  • on spools or reels, 133, 148;
  • painted, 147, 153;
  • paper, 126, 132, 140, 174;
  • perforated or notched, 133, 134, 145, 150;
  • plastic, 134, 142, 150, 153, 157, 174;
  • unperforated, 145, 158.
  • Fitton, William, 84, 169.
  • Flammarion, C., 116.
  • Fontaine, 129.
  • Font-de-Faune, Cave of, 14.
  • Forest, Lee de. See De Forest, Lee.
  • Foucauld, Léon, 172.
  • Franklin, Benjamin, 74, 168.
  • Friese-Greene, William. See Greene, William Friese.
  • G
  • Galen, 164.
  • Galileo, 45.
  • Gammon. See Raff & Gammon.
  • Gaumont, Léon, 146, 150.
  • Gauthier, 176.
  • Geber, 164.
  • Geissler, Heinrich, 127.
  • Geissler tube. See Projection Light Sources.
  • Georgiades, George, 138, 151.
  • Gilmore, W. E., 158.
  • Giovio, Benedetto, 33.
  • Glass Slides. See Slides.
  • Glasses, Burning. See Burning Glasses.
  • Goodwin, Hannibal Williston, 174, 175.
  • Gossart, A., 176.
  • Govi, 124.
  • Gravesande, Willem Jakob van’s. See Van’s Gravesande, Willem Jakob.
  • Greene, William Friese, 139, 142–144, 148, 175.
  • Grey, 176.
  • Grimoin-Sanson, Raoul, 176.
  • Guinard, Pierre L., 168.
  • Gutenberg, 165.
  • Guyot, Jean Gilles, 71, 72, 75.
  • H
  • Hammond’s Teleview, 111.
  • Harris, Augustus, 153.
  • Harris, John, 167.
  • Hauron, Louis Ducos du. See Du Hauron, Louis Ducos.
  • Hauslab, Field Marshall von, 99, 102.
  • Heliocinegraphe, 110.
  • Heliostat, 167.
  • Heliotypes, 169.
  • Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von, 124.
  • Herschel, John, 84, 169.
  • Heyl, Henry Renno, 112–114, 121, 172.
  • Holland, Andrew, M., 137.
  • Holland Bros., 151.
  • Hooke, Robert, 167.
  • Hopkins, Alfred, 130.
  • Hopwood, Cecil M., 176.
  • Horner, William George, 109, 170.
  • Howard, F., 176.
  • Hoxie, Charles A., 160.
  • Hughes, W. C., 176.
  • Hunt, Robert, 108.
  • Hunter, Rudolph Melville, 156.
  • Hyalotype, 108, 171.
  • Hyatt Company, 133, 153.
  • Hyatt, John Wesley, 172.
  • Hydrocarbon Lamp. See Projection Light Sources.
  • I
  • Illusion of Motion. See Motion, Illusion of.
  • Illusions, Optical, 63, 73.
  • Intermittent Movement. See Movement, Intermittent.
  • Isaacs, John D., 118, 120, 173.
  • J
  • Jacob, Willem, 144.
  • Janssen, Pierre Jules César, 116, 125, 173.
  • Janssen, Zachary, 45.
  • Japanese Mirrors. See Mirrors.
  • “Jazz Singer, The,” 160.
  • Jenkins, C. (Charles) Francis, 155, 156, 176.
  • Jennings, W. N., 143.
  • “J. M.”, 87, 169.
  • Joly, Henri, 176.
  • K
  • Kaleidophone, 169.
  • Kaleidoscope, 53, 83, 169.
  • Kaster, Captain, 84.
  • Keith’s Theatre, 151.
  • Kepler, Johannes, 43–46, 166.
  • Kesler, John Stephan, 60.
  • Kinematoscope, 112, 114, 172. See also Cinematoscope.
  • Kineograph, 172.
  • Kineopticon, 154.
  • Kinesigraph, 131, 139, 173.
  • Kinetic Lantern, 154.
  • Kinetograph, 130, 133, 135–138, 149, 175.
  • Kinetophonograph, 137, 138.
  • Kinetoscope, 130, 133, 137, 151, 155, 156, 158, 159, 175.
  • Kinetoscope Exhibition Company, 156.
  • Kinetoscope Parlor, 137.
  • Kingston-on-Thames Museum, 128.
  • Kircher, Athanasius, 9–12, 20, 46, 48–80, 85, 101, 102, 104, 161, 166, 171.
  • KMCD Syndicate, 157.
  • Koopman, E. B., 157.
  • Koster & Bial’s Music Hall, 11, 158, 159, 176.
  • Kunckelius, J., 68.
  • L
  • Laing, James, 172.
  • Lambda Company, 157.
  • Lamposcope, 124, 174.
  • Langenheim Brothers, 106–112, 114, 161, 171, 173.
  • Langenheim, Frederic, 106–108, 112, 171. See also Langenheim Brothers.
  • Langenheim, William, 106, 107, 112, 171. See also Langenheim Brothers.
  • Langenmantel, Jerome, 59, 67.
  • Langley, Samuel P., 145.
  • Langlois, 172.
  • Lanterns. See Kinetic Lantern, Magic Lantern, Megalographica Lantern, and Thaumaturga Lantern.
  • Latham, Grey, 156, 176.
  • Latham, Otway, 156, 176.
  • Latham, Woodville, 156–158, 176.
  • Lauste, Eugène, 157.
  • Lee, 172.
  • Lenses, 39, 54, 63, 65–67, 69, 70, 75, 100, 101, 108, 112, 141, 144, 155, 166–167.
  • Le Prince, Louis Aimé Augustin, 139, 141, 174.
  • Levison, Wallace Goold, 143.
  • Libri, Guillaume, 34.
  • Liesegang, Paul E., 147.
  • Linnett, 172.
  • Lucretius, 96, 97, 163.
  • Lumière, Auguste, 150, 175.
  • Lumière Bros., 149, 150, 175.
  • Lumière, Louis, 149, 150, 158, 175.
  • M
  • Maddox, R. L., 116.
  • Madou, 92.
  • Magascope, 168.
  • Magic Disks. See Plateau-Stampfer Magic Disks.
  • Magic Lantern: 9, 11, 48–69, 84, 98, 107, 108, 136, 147, 150, 166, 171, 173;
  • Motion effects: See Chapters VIII and IX.
  • Magnifying glass, 15, 163.
  • Maguire & Baucus, 176.
  • Maltese Cross Gear System, 153, 155, 172.
  • Marey, Etienne Jules, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121–129, 133, 134, 137, 139, 143–145, 147, 148, 150, 151, 161, 173–175.
  • Mariro, Bruono, 33.
  • Marischelle, H., 146.
  • Marvin, Henry Norton, 157.
  • Mason, Joe, 141.
  • Maurolico (Maurolycus), Francesco, 32, 33, 165.
  • Maxwell, James Clerk, 173.
  • Megalographica Lantern, 67.
  • Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 123, 128, 174.
  • Melies, Georges, 176.
  • Mendel, 176.
  • Messager, 176.
  • Microscope, 15, 25, 32, 67, 168, 172.
  • Mirrors: 39, 40, 53, 104, 108, 164;
  • English, 16, 17, 163;
  • Japanese, 16, 163.
  • Mohr, Nicholas, 63.
  • Moigno, Abbé François Napoléon Marie, 96, 110, 170.
  • Moissant, Charles, 150.
  • Moland, Humbert de, 172.
  • Molteni, A., 172.
  • Molyneux, William, 62, 68, 69, 167.
  • Mortier, 176.
  • Motion Color Photography, 143.
  • Motion, Illusion of, 14, 18, 21, 26, 45, 73, 89–97, 100–114.
  • Motion Photography, 116–125, 128, 132, 143, 146, 147.
  • Motion Projection: See Projection.
  • Motorscope, 172.
  • Movement, Intermittent, 113, 116, 150, 153, 155, 172, 173. See also Marey and Muybridge.
  • Müller, Johann, 170.
  • Muggeridge, Edward James: See Muybridge, Eadweard.
  • Multiple Lenses: See Lenses.
  • Musschenbroek, Pieter van, 70–74, 76, 77, 161, 168.
  • Mutograph, 157, 158.
  • Mutoscope, 157, 158.
  • Muybridge, Eadweard, 118–128, 137, 142, 147, 161, 173, 174.
  • N
  • Natural Camera: See Camera Obscura.
  • Necromancy, 9, 10, 28, 56, 75, 76, 114, 164. See also Phantasmagoria.
  • Newman & Guardia, 176.
  • Newnes, George, 140.
  • Newsreel, first, 151.
  • Niceron, Jean Pierre, 166.
  • Nicholas of Cusa, 165.
  • Niepce, Joseph Nicéphore, 169, 170.
  • Noakes & Norman, 176.
  • Nollet, Abbé, 71, 73, 74, 168.
  • O
  • Olympia Theatre, 153.
  • Optical Illusions: See Illusions, Optical.
  • Ott, Fred, 136, 137.
  • Ottway, 176.
  • P
  • Pantograph, 46.
  • Pantoptikon, 157.
  • Panuce: See Papnutio, Benedettano Don.
  • Papnutio, Benedettano Don, 33, 34, 165.
  • Paris, John Ayrton, 80–84, 161, 169.
  • Parnaland, Ambrose Francis, 176.
  • Parkes, Alexander, 172.
  • Pathé, Charles, 153.
  • Paul, Robert William, 151–154, 158, 176.
  • Peacock, Thomas Love, 81.
  • Peckham, John, 33, 165.
  • Peep-show machine, Edison’s, 96, 134, 138, 139, 149, 154, 155.
  • Perret & Lacroix, 176.
  • Persistence of vision, 18, 21, 22, 38, 80, 82, 83, 85–87, 94, 97, 163, 164, 169.
  • Phantasmagoria, 75–79, 114, 152, 168. See also Necromancy.
  • Phantoscope, 78, 155. See also Fantascope.
  • Phasmatrope, 113, 114.
  • Phénakisticope, 92–94, 96, 97, 109, 170. See also Fantascope.
  • Phonetic Kaleidoscope, 169.
  • Phonograph, 130–132, 140, 146, 154, 159, 173, 174.
  • Photo-gun, 116, 122, 125, 145, 173.
  • Photobioscope, 172.
  • Photograph projection, 105–114, 121, 134, 142.
  • Photographic Pellicle, 174.
  • Photography:
  • color, see Color Photography;
  • dry plate, 116;
  • motion, see Motion Photography;
  • motion color, see Motion Color Photography;
  • wet plate, 112, 120.
  • Photophone, 146.
  • Photoscope, 146.
  • Physiological Park, Marey’s, 125.
  • Pipon, 176.
  • Plateau, Joseph Antoine Ferdinand, 85–97, 102, 104, 109, 115, 122, 130, 161, 170.
  • Plateau-Stampfer Magic Disks, 93–96, 98–100, 108–110, 113, 116, 121, 123, 126, 128, 137, 142, 170, 171, 173.
  • Pliny, 32, 163.
  • Porta, Giovanni Battista della, 36–45, 47, 48, 148, 161, 166.
  • Praxinoscope, 124, 147, 174.
  • Prestwich, 176.
  • Prince, Louis Aimé Augustin Le: See Le Prince, Louis Aimé Augustin.
  • Projection:
  • color, 66, 69, 96, 101, 153, 159;
  • motion, 68, 70–75, 89, 92, 98, 102, 109, 112, 117, 121, 127, 128, 130, 136, 139, 140, 149, 152, 171–176;
  • photograph, see Photograph Projection;
  • slide, see Slide Projection;
  • film, see Film;
  • light sources, see Projection Light Sources;
  • rear, 148;
  • screen, 10, 11, 40, 92, 98, 104, 121, 123, 132, 134, 147, 148, 154–159, 176;
  • three-dimensional, 65, 109–111.
  • Projection Lenses: See Lenses.
  • Projection Light Sources:
  • candle, 54;
  • electric arc, 144;
  • gas lamp, 108, 169;
  • Geissler tube, 127, 128, 147, 174;
  • hydrocarbon lamp, 99;
  • oxyhydrogen light, 101, 146, 171;
  • sun, 55, 144, 167, 175;
  • table lamp, 67, 73, 124.
  • Projection of Motion: See Projection.
  • Projectors: 15, 104, 129, 139, 149, 163–176;
  • Acres, 154;
  • Anschütz, 146, 147;
  • Armat-Edison, 158–160;
  • Armat-Jenkins, 155, 158;
  • Chales, de, 65;
  • Demeny, 146;
  • Edison, 135–137; see also Vitascope;
  • Gaumont, 146;
  • Greene, 143;
  • Greene-Rudge, 142, 175;
  • Heyl, 113; see also Phasmatrope;
  • Jenkins; see Armat-Jenkins;
  • Kircher, 53–55, 59; see also Magic Lantern;
  • Latham, 157;
  • Le Prince, 141;
  • Lumière, 150, 151;
  • Marey, 144, 145;
  • Muybridge, 128; see also Zoopraxiscope;
  • Paul, 152, 153;
  • Reynaud, 123, 147, 148; see also Praxinoscope;
  • Rudge, 141, 142;
  • Schott, 63;
  • Uchatius, 100–102;
  • Zahn, 67.
  • Prokesch, W., 102.
  • Proszynski, 176.
  • Ptolemy, 21, 22, 26, 164.
  • Q
  • Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques, 86, 89, 92.
  • Quinetoscope, 112, 171.
  • R
  • Raff & Gammon, 137, 158, 159.
  • Radio City Music Hall, 66.
  • Rear Projection: See Projection.
  • Reinhold, Erasmus, 165.
  • Reville, 172.
  • Revolving disks, 59, 67, 70, 89, 92, 93, 96, 100, 116, 121.
  • Reynaud, Emile, 79, 123, 139, 147, 173–175.
  • Riley, 176.
  • Ritchie, William, 169.
  • Robert, Etienne Gaspard: See Robertson, Etienne Gaspard.
  • Robertson, Etienne Gaspard, 77–79, 168.
  • Roger, Peter Mark, 86, 87, 94, 95, 169.
  • Roman College: See Collegio Romano.
  • Rotating lenses: See Lenses.
  • Rowe, 176.
  • Rudge, John Arthur Roebuck, 139, 141–143, 148, 175.
  • S
  • Sallé & Mazo, 176.
  • Salle au Grand-Café, 151.
  • Sanson, Raoul Grimoin: See Grimoin-Sanson, Raoul.
  • Scheele, Carl William, 168.
  • Scheiner, Christopher, 45, 46, 166.
  • Schemer, 67.
  • Schott, Gaspar, 62–64, 66, 67, 69, 166.
  • Schultze, Johann Heinrich, 167, 168.
  • Screen Projection: See Projection.
  • Seely, 172.
  • Sellers, Coleman, 111, 112, 114, 172.
  • Seneca, 163.
  • Sequin, 171, 173.
  • Seraphin, François, 76, 168.
  • Shadow Plays, 13, 16, 76, 77, 148, 163, 168.
  • Shaw, William Thomas, 171.
  • Showmanship, 15, 16, 36–42, 58, 67, 68, 72, 73, 76–79, 123, 168.
  • Shutters, 96, 111, 113, 116, 121, 124, 135.
  • Silver, 163.
  • Silver chloride, 168.
  • Silver nitrate, 164, 168, 169.
  • Sinsteden, Dr., 96, 97.
  • Skladanowski, Max, 176.
  • Slide Projection, 48–79, 85–114.
  • Slides:
  • painted, 68, 69, 100, 104, 110, 124;
  • photographic: See Photograph projection.
  • Snell, Ebenezer Strong, 106, 170.
  • Snell, Willebrord, 166.
  • Soleil, François, 110, 170.
  • Sound Motion Pictures, 131, 132, 134–138, 159, 160.
  • Sources of Light: See Projection Light Sources.
  • Spaĉil, Karl, 104.
  • Stampfer, Simon Ritter von, 85, 93–95, 170. See also Plateau-Stampfer magic disks.
  • Stanford, Leland, 118–122.
  • Stereofantascope, 109, 172.
  • Stereopticon, 136.
  • Stereoscope, 67, 109, 111, 170–172.
  • Stereoscope Cosmorama Exhibit, 111.
  • Stereostrope, 172.
  • Stillman, J. D. B, 119, 120.
  • Story, A. T., 143.
  • Stroboscope, 88, 93, 94, 170.
  • T
  • Tachyscope: See Electrical Tachyscope.
  • Talbot calotype process, 107.
  • Talbot, William Henry Fox, 106, 107, 133, 142, 170.
  • Talking Pictures: See Sound Motion Pictures.
  • Tanera, A. D., 147.
  • Telescope, 15, 25, 26, 41, 45, 53, 63, 65, 67.
  • Teleview, Hammond’s: See Hammond’s Teleview.
  • Television, 156.
  • Thaumatrope, 80, 89, 94, 142, 157, 169, 172.
  • Thaumaturga Lantern, 67.
  • Théâtre Optique, 147, 157, 175.
  • Théâtre Robert Houdin, 79.
  • Theatrograph, 153.
  • Thirion, Catherine, 85.
  • Thompson, Silvanus, 153.
  • Thuringopolonus: See Witelo.
  • Tissandier, Gaston, 121, 124.
  • Trajedis, George, 138, 151.
  • U
  • Uchatius bronze, 98, 103.
  • Uchatius, Franz von, 68, 98–105, 108, 112, 117, 121, 142, 152, 161, 171, 172, 174.
  • V
  • Valesius, George de, 60.
  • Van Musschenbroek, Pieter: See Musschenbroek, Pieter van.
  • Van’s Gravesande, Willem Jakob, 167.
  • Varley, John, 143.
  • Vassel, Eugene, 122.
  • Vinci, Leonardo da, 29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 38, 43, 44, 69, 161, 165.
  • Vision, Persistence of: See Persistence of Vision.
  • Vitascope, 11, 158–160.
  • Von Hauslab, Field Marshall: See Hauslab, Field Marshall von.
  • Von Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand: See Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von.
  • Von Stampfer, Simon Ritter: See Stampfer, Simon Ritter von.
  • W
  • Walgenstein, Thomas, 58, 66, 69, 150, 167.
  • Warner, Albert, 160.
  • Warner Bros., 160
  • Warner, Harry, 160.
  • Warner, Jack, 160.
  • Warner, Sam, 160.
  • Wattson, 176.
  • Wedgwood, Tom, 168.
  • Wells, H. G., 152.
  • Werner, 138, 149, 176.
  • Wet-plate photography: See Photography.
  • Wheatstone, Charles, 109, 110, 169–171.
  • Wheel of Life, 108, 116, 122, 129, 173. See also Plateau-Stampfer Magic Disks.
  • Wheel phenomenon, 86, 87, 91, 92, 169.
  • Whirling Top, 70, 74.
  • Winter Garden Theatre, 160.
  • Witelo (Thuringopolonus), 43, 164.
  • Wolff, Phillip, 176.
  • Wollaston, William Hyde, 84, 169.
  • Wotton, Henry, 166.
  • Y
  • Yarwell, John, 69.
  • Z
  • Zahn, Johann, 62, 66–69, 101, 167.
  • Zion, 176.
  • Zoetrope, 113, 126, 137, 172.
  • Zoopraxinographoscope, 124.
  • Zoopraxiscope, 124, 174.
  • Zoopraxographical Hall, 127.