The Flipbook or "Kinograph"

Pierre-Hubert Desvignes is credited with inventing the flip in 1868 however john Barnes Linnet of London was the first to patent the flibook. A flipbook is made of a set of images on separate pages bound together on one side like a book. The viewer flicks between the images in the book using there fingers and it creates a moving image. The flipbook is relatively simplistic compared to other devices around this earlier period of animation which made it more accessible to the public. I think the flipbook is incredibly important because to me it feel like the closest of the early animation techniques to hand drawn animation that around in the early 20th century.