{{One source|date=June 2024}} [[File:Kinematoscope-United-States-Patent-0031357-Coleman-Sellers-Page-1.jpg|thumb|Kinematoscope, United States Pa­tent 31357, Coleman Sellers, p. 1]] '''The Kinematoscope''' (a.k.a. '''Motoscope''') was patented in 1861 (United States Patent 31357), a protean development in the history of cinema. The invention aimed to present the illusion of motion.<ref name=hist>{{cite web| url=http://www.precinemahistory.net/1860.htm | title=The History of The Discovery of Cinematography - 1860 - 1869 | first= | last= | date=June 7, 2012}}</ref>
The patent was filed by Coleman Sellers of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as an "improvement in exhibiting stereoscopic pictures". Coleman applied stereoscopy to the existing principle of toy phantasmascopes using rotating discs.
A series of still stereographic images with successive stages of action were mounted on blades of a spinning paddle and viewed through slits. The slits passed under a stereoscopic viewer. The pictures were visible within a cabinet, and were not projected onto a screen.
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==External links== * [https://patents.google.com/patent/US31357A/en Patent of Kinemstoscope on Google] {{Precursors of film}}
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