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Note: The disc belongs to a phenakistoscope, and not to a zoopraxiscope as the description claims, and was probably part of a patent application filed for the zoopraxiscope in 1893, the year he presented his invention at the
Columbian Exposition in
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in 1893 and differs from the standard format in that the slits are located towards the center of the disc, and not around the perimeter.
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