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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TACHYSCOPE

TACHYSCOPE Tach "y *scope, n. [Gr. quick + -scope. ]

 

Defn: An early form of antimated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by Otto Anschütz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.