A lithograph of him by William Drummond is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Around 1825, according to Charles Babbage's autobiography, he invented the thaumatrope, which was later commercially publicised by Dr. John Ayrton Paris (to whom the invention is more usually attributed).
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