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When developing the miniature device for creating the galloping horse image, Konstantin Chaykin constructed a miniature version of Eadweard Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope, improved upon by Chaykin by adding a shutter and a Geneva drive with a wheel in the shape of a Maltese cross. This is how, at the end of the 19th Century, cinematographic development occurred, when the pioneers of cinematography borrowed the idea of converting continuous rotation into intermittent rotation from watchmakers, using the long-known watchmaking tradition of a drive wheel in the form of a Maltese cross.