The Kinetoscope, an early motion picture exhibition device, was first publicly displayed on May 20, 1891. Considered by some to be the first movie projector, the Kinetoscope was designed for films to ...
(WDBJ) - On this day in 1897, Thomas Edison received a patent for the kinetographic camera. A certain new and useful Improvement in Kinetoscopes," the forerunner of the motion picture film projector.
Though most famous for his Promethean invention of the light bulb, Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope 112 years ago today, igniting the medium that became the motion picture industry. While the ...
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