Category:Photodrome

Pho"to*drome, n. Etym: [photo- + gr. (physics)

Defn: 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.