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Chinese inventors built the first zoetrope in 180 AD
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Hollywood likes to think it invented moving pictures, but some guy in the Han Dynasty beat them by nearly two millennia. Ding Huan created a device featuring painted birds and animals that appeared to move when convection from a lamp spun the contraption. It took Western civilization another 1,600 years to figure out that staring through slits at a spinning drum could trick the brain into seeing motion.
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