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Zoetrope 

Invented in 1834 by William George Horner, it was an early form of motion picture projector that consisted of a drum containing a set of still images, that was turned in a circular fashion in order to create the illusion of motion.

Praxinoscope

Invented in 1877 by a Frenchman, Emile Reynaud. A substance of the moving picture with narrow vertical mirrors placed at the center of the drum. 

Phenakistoscope

Uses an open top drum with a sequence of images drawn inner side of the drum and each image is all in the same distance from the centre of the circle, it also an illusion. 

Zoopraxiscope

Eadweard Muybridge created Zoopraxiscope in 1879.  the sequences of images from glass discs and was devised in order to prove the authenticity of Muybridge's galloping horse pictures.