Anorthoscope
by Joseph Plateau
A disc covered with a distorted picture looks normal when it spins fast behind four slits. Joseph Plateau invented this optical illusion in 1829.
Photo: Joseph Plateau (Public domain)
Capturing an image or a sound once seemed impossible. Photography was born in the first half of the 19th century. Cinema and sound recording followed before 1900. Then colour and television renewed everything. Each process changed the way we keep the memory of the world.
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Iconoscope
by Vladimir K. Zworykin
His teacher in Saint Petersburg was Boris Rosing, one of the inventors of the cathode ray tube. The pupil left Russia after the Bolsheviks came to power and became an American citizen in 1924.
Photo: Edward M. Noll (Public domain)
Kinemacolor
by George Albert Smith
An orange-red filter then a blue-green one took turns in front of each frame. The frames ran in sequence and the eye believed it saw colour.
Photo: Natural Color Kinematograph Company (Public domain)
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