The Tachyscope. —The tachyscope of Herr Ottamar Anschuetz, of Lissa in Prussia, is an ingenious apparatus of the zoetrope order, by which instantaneous photographs of persons, animals, or machines in motion are combined and reproduced so as to give the effect of life and movement. It consists of a wheel around the periphery of which the instantaneous photographs are arranged in a consecutive series. A Giessler tube illuminates each photograph in turn as the wheel is revolved, and the image of one persisting m the retina of the eye until the next appears m view, the effect of a single animated picture is obtained. From a study of horses TT~--Anschuetz has observed that the ar.o leub Greek artists were quite right in sometimes representing a prancing charger as resting on one hind leg. Modern artists always extend their supports to both hind legs -»ogsther.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 937, 14 February 1890, Page 2
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