1857 in animation
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Events in 1857 in animation.
Events
- Specific date unknown:
- In 1857, the earliest known illustration of a vertical biunial magic lantern, probably provided by E.G. Wood, appeared in the Horne & Thornthwaite catalogue.[1] Biunial lanterns, with two projecting optical sets in one apparatus, were produced to more easily project dissolving views.[2]
- In 1857, the social reformer Florence Nightingale produced "coxcombs" as part of a campaign to improve sanitary conditions in the British Army. It was an early example two-dimensional example of scientific visualization.[3] This prefigured modern scientific visualization techniques that use computer graphics.[4]
Births
January
- January 4: Ãmile Cohl, French comics artist, caricaturist and film director (Fantasmagorie), (d. 1938).[5][6][7][8]
Specific date unknown
- Romeyn Beck Hough, American botanist and physician (he sold magic lantern and microscope slides made from the thinnest transverse sections), (d. 1924).[9][10]
- George R. Tweedie, English businessman, (he gained fame in 1891 by running a popular magic lantern show, titled "Gossip about Ghosts". The show, which cost sixpence, consisted of fifty slides, each illustrating a story about ghosts or supernatural occurrences), (d. 1937).[11][12][13]