"stereopticon" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.",
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          "ref": "1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 200:",
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        "A magic lantern, especially one with two projectors arranged so as to produce dissolving views or combinations of images."
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