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- Birth nameJohn Lyon Burnside III
- John Burnside was born on November 2, 1916 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He died on September 14, 2008 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Lived with gay rights activist Harry Hay from 1963 until Hay's death in 2002.
- Inventor of a kaleidoscope-like device called the teleidoscope.
- Created the Symetricon, a large mechanical device that projects kaleidoscopic patterns used in a number of movies, including the 1976 science fiction film "Logan's Run".
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