The phenakistoscope was an early animation device that used a spinning disk of sequential images and the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion. This device was created by a man called Joseph Plateau. Plateau planned it in 1839 and invented it in 1841.
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (14 October 1801 – 15 September 1883) was a Belgian physicist. He was the first person to demonstrate animation. To do this he used counter rotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other (shown above). He called this device the phenakistoscope.