tachyscope

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CIDE DICTIONARY

tachyscope, n. [Gr. tachy`s quick + -scope.].

An early form of animated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by Otto AnschÜtz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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