In the 1890s, Thomas Edison worked with his assistant and part ... peephole-viewed cabinet called a kinetoscope.

Unfortunately, the design is too minimal. Though most famous for his Promethean invention of the light bulb, Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope 112 years ago today, igniting the medium that ...

Working in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Edison gained fame through his various inventions, including the phonograph. His Kinetoscope, which showed moving images through a pinhole, was the forerunner to ...