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Curious Contraptions of Victorian Ingenuity
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  • 1. Machine recording motion or pressure variations on a rotating drum
  • 2. Instrument to detect the presence of electric charge
  • 3. Device invented for assisting with artificial eye surgery
  • 5. Although incomplete, could be referring to early refined optical instruments
  • 10. A precursor to the movie projector that showed moving images
  • 12. Victorian systems often used this air-powered method for transmission
  • 14. Early device used to measure the effects of drugs on animals
Down
  • 4. An early device that visually recorded sound waves before the phonograph
  • 6. Victorian calculating machine for performing arithmetic operations
  • 7. Technique to view X-ray images in real time, emerging in late 1800s
  • 8. Spinning device creating the illusion of motion from static pictures
  • 9. Device creating 3D images by combining two photographs
  • 11. Mechanical figure designed to perform human-like tasks
  • 13. Early form of bicycle popular in the 19th century

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