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He had lost both his parents by the age of 14 and moved to a village near Waterloo, shortly before the battle broke out in His research looked at how images form on the retina and the persistence of visual impressions, such as how we see falling raindrops as lines. Three years later, he used his findings to create a phenakistoscope - and the first ever moving image. The phenakistoscope is an instrument which comprises two rotating discs moving in opposite directions.

One disc is fitted with small windows and the other features images of a dancer. When the discs are turned at the right speed, the images create the illusion of a dancer in motion.

It is believed the device was simultaneously invented by Austrian professor Simon Stampfer, who was also studying the same optical illusion.