[Ottomar] Anschuetz's electric tachyscope – Antique Print
![[Ottomar] Anschuetz's electric tachyscope, [1892?] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0e/0e7cb9072436-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique engraving of [Ottomar] Anschuetz's electric tachyscope brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Ottomar] Anschuetz's electric tachyscope
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Ottomar Anschütz's electric tachyscope appears in this wood engraving, which *Scientific American* ran around 1892; the catalog marks that date with a question mark, so it may not be exact. Anschütz, a German photographer, extended his work on rapid serial photography into devices that displayed a series of images in quick succession, creating the illusion of motion before film projection became common. His electrically driven version showed sequences of photographs, many of people and animals in movement, and the engraving offers a useful look at how American readers of the period were introduced to these early motion-picture machines.
| Created / published | [1892?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Scientific American, 1892?. Reference copy may be available in SSF - Motion Pictures--Devices--1892?. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Inventions--Anschuetz; Motion pictures; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,304 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146803 |
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