"crescograph" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1920 February 5, Scientific American Monthly, page 120:",
          "text": "For the detection of variation of growth it was necessary to devise the extremely sensitive balanced crescograph.",
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          "ref": "1920, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, “Are plant life and animal life essentially the same?”, in Current Opinion, volume 69, page 828:",
          "text": "The magnetic crescograph, invented by the famed Indian botanist, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, for this purpose, seems capable of magnifying the highest powers of the microscope a hundred thousand times.",
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