The praxinoscope was an animation device which created an illusion of movement, it was the successor to the zoetrope. It worked similar to the zoetrope as it was on a cylinder but it had an inner rotation of mirrors which projected the images of that.
Who invented it and when.
According to Wikipedia the praxinoscope was inveted in France in 1877 by French inventor Charles-Emile Reynaud after he soent many years trying to improve on the zoetrope.
How this was better than the zoetrope.
The reason why the praxinoscope is better that the zoetrope as it includes an inner rotation of mirrors so when projected looking in the mirror would see a brighter and less distorted picture that the zoetrope offered with its normal pictures.
How it was developed into the “Theatre Optique”
In 1889 Reynaud developed the Théâtre Optique, an improved version capable of projecting images on a screen from a longer roll of pictures. This allowed him to show hand-drawn animated cartoons to larger audiences. However it was soon taken over in popularity by the photographic film projector of the Lumiere brothers
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