Tachyscope

Institution

Ajuntament de Girona

Object description:

Tachyscope. O. Anschütz. The name of the device appears in German, English, Spanish and French. It includes wooden stand and a cardboard top cover. This apparatus was invented by Ottomar Anschütz in 1891 and marketed afterwards. The goal was also to recompose the movement of a chronophotograph using the system of a zoetrope, substituting the draws for photographs.

Object/Work type:

zoetropes

Location:

Gerona - Spain

Object measurements:

20 x 23,3 x 23,3 cm; 23,3 cm.

Production

Anschütz, Ottomar (inventor)

Date: 1891 ca.

Place: Germany

Subject/theme:

toys, visual arts

Resource

Rights Type: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 

Date Taken: 1996

Record

Rights Type: CC0

Source: Ajuntament de Girona

Identifier: MC-MP00966-1