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PECOTA, the projection machine run by Baseball Prospectus, also pegged them for baseball’s best record: 99 wins.

In 1918, Douglas Fairbanks, the dashing marquee star of prewar America, sent Wilson the gift of a “projection machine,” which was often threaded with Westerns.

He also lectured on animal motion and used his zoopraxiscope, a lantern projection machine that turned rapidly through photo slides, to illustrate his talks.

Brother Jack sang songs while Sam ran the projection machine; Al drummed up publicity; Harry was the booking agent.

On the side he operated a projection machine manufacturing company with which exhibitors found it wise to deal.