Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Recreational Artifacts (hierarchy name)
5. recreational artifacts (equipment)
6. toys (recreational artifacts)
7. [toys by form]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Recreational Artifacts
5. recreational artifacts
6. toys
7. toys by mode of operation
8. mechanical toys

Narrower term/s

• kaleidoscopes
• magic lanterns [NP]
• praxinoscopes
• zoetropes
• thaumatropes
• phenakistoscopes
• stereopticons
• zograscopes
• zoopraxiscopes

Anotations

Scope note:

Toys that entertain the visual senses, as by demonstrating the theory of the persistance of vision or that operate using other principles of optics, projected images, or light as a fundamental feature; popular especially during the 19th century.