Belshazzar
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Belshazzar
- Alternative form of Balthazar
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]Belshazzar (plural Belshazzars)
- (dated) An early kind of overhead projector.
- 1950, Film User Year Book, page 39:
- A projector of such unusual design as the Belshazzar is a type unto itself. Whilst it projects transparencies […]
- 1969, Derick Unwin, Media and Methods: Instructional Technology in Higher Education, page 36:
- Some 20 years ago , Aldis introduced the Belshazzar, but it was before its time […]
- 1970, A. R. Meetham, Information Retrieval: The Essential Technology, page 81:
- A certain British projecting device, called a Belshazzar, is used in teaching and lecturing to cast on a screen or wall whatever is depicted on its transparent table.