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Thaumatropes

Scope note

Use for optical toys consisting of disks with different images on each side which, when the disks are spun rapidly, tend to merge together as the strings on which the disks are mounted are pulled by the fingers; developed in the 1820s. HISTOY

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000211674

Broader Terms used

optical toys

Equivalent Terms used

thaumatrope

Created

13yrs ago

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