Tachyscope

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

  Tachyscope \Tach"y*scope\, n. [Gr. tachy`s quick + -scope.]
     An early form of animated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by
     Otto Ansch["u]tz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs
     were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]