Flip book (kineograph)
Folioscopio (flipbook)
- Date
- 1868 · confidence high
- Place
- Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- John Barnes Linnett
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Linnett patented the "kineograph", a booklet of images that change gradually from page to page and, when flipped quickly, simulate motion. It was the first animation based on a linear sequence rather than the circular designs of earlier optical toys.
The Wikidata candidate gave the name "John Linett Barnes" and the year 1860; the correct name is John Barnes Linnett and the patent dates from 1868. Pierre-Hubert Desvignes, also cited by Wikidata, does not appear as a co-author in the sources consulted.
What it led to
- Flip-through animation optical toys
- Conceptual precursor of frame-by-frame animation
- Late 19th-century mutoscopes