Thaumatrope

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

A thaumatrope is an optical toy that was introduced in 1825. When the strings attached to the small illustrated disk are twirled quickly between the fingers, the depicted elements on either side of the disk appear to blend into one image.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Thaumatrope”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A., CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.