As per our current Database, Joseph Plateau has been died on Sep 15, 1883 (age 81).
When Joseph Plateau die, Joseph Plateau was 81 years old.
| Popular As | Joseph Plateau |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Age | 81 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Libra |
| Born | October 14, 1801 (Belgium) |
| Birthday | October 14 |
| Town/City | Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgium |
Joseph Plateau’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible
Joseph Plateau was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Belgian Physicist who made the first step towards making movies by demonstrating the illusion of the moving image with his device, the phenakistoscope. He was also a Professor of experimental physics at Ghent University.
At six years of age he could already read and write, and was considered a child Prodigy.
Understanding that images stay on the retina for a short while even after they change, he fashioned a device that used counter rotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other, to demonstrate this.
His father was known locally as a talented Painter of flowers.
Thomas Edison employed some of his discoveries in building his moving-picture machine.
