'Tachyscope' definitions:

Definition of 'Tachyscope'

From: 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.]