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2. Zoetrope - Wikipedia

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   A zoetrope is a pre-film animation device that produces the illusion of motion, by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. A zoetrope is a cylindrical variant of the phénakisticope, an apparatus suggested after the stroboscopic discs were introduced in 1833.

3. Dentzel Carousel Company - Wikipedia

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   History. Glen Echo Park carousel, Montgomery County, Maryland. Glen Echo Park carousel building. Its founder, Gustav Dentzel, had immigrated to the United States in 1860, from Germany. Having carved carousels for his father before immigrating he opened a cabinet making shop on Germantown Ave. in Philadelphia. He soon tired of the cabinet making ...

4. Jane's Carousel - Wikipedia

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   Jane's Carousel (formerly Idora Park Merry-Go-Round) is a carved wooden 48-horse carousel in Brooklyn, New York City, built in 1922 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (PTC) for the Idora Park amusement park in Youngstown, Ohio. [2] It was carved by John Zalar and Frank Carretta, each of whom is attributed with carvings on carousels ...

5. Flying Horse Carousel - Wikipedia

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   September 5, 1985. The Flying Horse Carousel is a historic carousel in Watch Hill, the principal summer resort area of the town of Westerly, Rhode Island, United States. It is one of two in the state designated as National Historic Landmarks, along with the Crescent Park Looff Carousel in East Providence. It is the oldest operating carousel in ...

6. Artist continues to restore Paragon Carousel to its former ...

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   The 1928 carousel continues to be restored by artist James Hardison one horse at a time. His most recent accomplishment − the restoration the 53rd of the carousel's 66 equine figures − will be ...

7. Spillman Engineering 3-Abreast Carousel - Wikipedia

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   The Spillman Engineering 3-Abreast Carousel was a carousel built in 1920 by the Allan Herschell Company. The carousel was in the Eastridge shopping Center, San Jose, California. It featured 30 hand-carved jumping wooden horses and two hand-carved chariots which serve as benches. The carousel was one of only four large carousels made by the ...