Development of Stop Motion Animation

William George Horner was born in 1786 in Britain and was a mathematician, in 1833/34 he developed the almost drum like shape of the Zoetrap, who was already aware of the recently developed Phenakistoscope disk, Joseph Plateau's invention. Horner's revolving drum had viewing slits between each of the pictures, he renamed it the 'Daedaleum'. It creates the illusion of action because of the fast movement, this made animations easy to see and it still often used today.