• (n.) An early form of antimated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by Otto Anschutz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/tachyscope/
Tach'y·scope noun [ Greek ... quick + -scope .] An early form of antimated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by Otto Anschütz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/3