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Photodrome

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(n.) An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Photodrome'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/photodrome.html. 1828.
 
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