One spring day in 1894, Thomas Edison unveiled a remarkable moving picture machine called the Kinetoscope in a Manhattan parlor. Some 500 people lined up to drop quarters into what was the Oculus Rift ...

(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.

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 ...

""An instrument which should do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear..."" is what Thomas Edison had in mind when he created the kinetograph (a camera used for photographing motion pictures ...

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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