"strobotorch" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1950 October 7, E.J. Salisbury, Forest Products Research 1949, page 3:",
          "text": "A technique employing either the strobotorch or high-speed photography has been evolved for observing the behaviour of the sawdust in the tooth gullets of a circular saw.",
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          "ref": "1960, Unattributed, Chemical Engineering Science 1960: Vol 12 Iss 2, page 137:",
          "text": "For each measurement the centrifuge speed was increased very slowly and the bead observed by means of a strobotorch flash synchronized manually.",
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