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Universal Wheel
ca. 1780
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Magic lantern slide, optical toy. On black field, pierced disk at center, surrounded by three large and nine smaller concentric circles. Large circles banded with radiating arcs curved alternately clockwise, counter clockwise, and clockwise; pink and white, green and orange and white.
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Details
- Title: Universal Wheel
- Date Created: ca. 1780
- Location Created: Savoy, France
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Cut paper on wood frame
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims and George A. Hearn and from the Misses Hewitt Fund
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