Meaning of kaleidograph | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A late 19th or early 20th century device for duplicating documents that use colored ink, consisting of a tray with a rubbery substance that takes an impression of the document and then transfers it onto blank sheets of paper.
2. A device for projecting the colorful patterns produced by a kaleidoscope.
3. A changing visual display.
   figuratively

Examples

“The Kaleidograph is claimed to be the only apparatus of the kind adapted for use in all temperatures from 20⁰ to 90⁰.”

“Some of the larger additions to the equipment have been for the school; two pianos, six typewriters, five kaleidographs, one stereograph, one embossed globe, twenty-four new desks, more than five hundred books for the library, numerous tables for study room, etc.;”

“In the school department the following subjects are taught: English, writing with stylus, kaleidograph and typewriting, spelling, dramatization, arithmetic, geography, history, current events, nature study, and physiology.”

“Electrical experiments were provided by Mr J. P. Capon, who had a powerful battery at work, and the kaleidograph, lent by Mr. G. Nash, was a never-ceasing source of fascination.”

“By means of a device, known as a kaleidograph, the patterns thus formed may be thrown on a screen or a glass.”

“PULFRICH, of Zeiss's, has invented a new kaleidograph which gives perfect images of the pretty and instructive figures as seen in the ordinary kaleidoscope.”

“Swayed by the kaleidograph of inner suggestion primitive tribes abandon themselves hour after hour to the festal chants until the performers reach the point of fatigue,”

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