From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[27 October 1867]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 11 (Nov. 8, 1867), 541-2
Summary:
Maintains that JH did not invent the thaumsacope [thaumatrope], which some have ascribed to him. JH does note that he proposed moving pictures in an 1860 publication, five years before Alonzo G. Grant sought patent protection for this idea.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project