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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who among the following persons invented ‘Phenakistoscope’ and Google celebrated his 218th birthday with a Doodle recently?
A
John Plateau
B
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau
C
Dracker Ontario
D
Richard Brown Williamson
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Today’s Doodle celebrates the Belgian physicist Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau, whose research on visual perception inspired him to invent a device he called the phénakistiscope, which led to the birth of cinema by creating the illusion of a moving image.

Detailed explanation-2: -He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this, he used counterrotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1832, Joseph invented phenakistiscope, a device that led to the birth of cinema by creating the illusion of a moving image. Today’s Google Doodle was inspired from Plateau’s discs which reflect his style with different imagery and themes in them on different device platforms.

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