Animation- pioneers- Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge created the Zoopraxiscope in 1879. the reason why he created the device was to settle a argument that a horse all four legs off the floor at the same time when it runs. Muybridge did this by setting up several cameras that took a picture when the horse ran past this showed that muybridge was right. this lead to the invention of the phenkitascope which was made in 1893, although it had been created earlier, Muybridge made it easy to view and created simpler designs. such designs were people dancing and kissing. this lead to basically all of animation because it was how moving images was displayed.

a phenkitascope

Eadweard Muybridge

A  zoopraxiscope