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Because the phenakistiscope was quite complicated to use, and could only be watched by one person at once, it was adapted to form a new kind of toy, which you can see on the next page.
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The
next stop in the development of animation was the phenakistiscope (Greek
for 'deceptive view'). It was invented in 1830 simultaneously by Joseph
Plateau in Belgium and Simon Stampfer in Austria. This toy had a disc
carrying a series of images set in a ring around the circumference, with
small slits between the images. When a rod was placed through the Centre
of the disc, and it was spun in front of a mirror, a person looking through
the slits from the back of the disc would see a moving image reflected
in the mirror. The images used could either be abstract patterns or performers
such as jugglers or acrobats. 
You
can see more examples of the phenakistiscope at