Mutoscope

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mutoscope \Mu"to*scope\, n. [L. mutare to change + -scope.]
     A simple form of moving-picture machine in which the series
     of views, exhibiting the successive phases of a scene, are
     printed on paper and mounted around the periphery of a wheel.
     The rotation of the wheel brings them rapidly into sight, one
     after another, and the blended effect gives a semblance of


     motion.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]