Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of kaleidoscope, invented by W. S. Simpson, with an aperture in the end into which objects can be introduced.
- noun A form of moving-picture machine invented by Francis Jenkins.
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You could see the atrocities of the French Revolution, and of the Fiji Islands, and the ravages of unspeakable diseases, and the living flesh of a nearly nude human female guaranteed to turn the scale at twenty - two stone, and the skeletons of the mysterious phantoscope, and the bloody contests of champions naked to the waist (with the chance of picking up a red tooth as a relic).
The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1899
mercy commented on the word phantoscope
A vitascope. Described here.
July 6, 2008