Learn about Thomas Edison, the prolific American inventor known for his revolutionary inventions like the light bulb, ...

Back 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 of ...

Thomas Edison received a patent in 1897 for the projecting kinetoscope, the forerunner of today’s motion-picture film projector. Edison and his assistant W.K.L. Dickson had begun work on the ...

Eventually, the Edison company produced a run of short films for the “kinetoscope,” an early device that allowed the public to watch the precursors of movies.

Check out Nick Hawkin's appraisal of an Edison Projecting Kinetoscope, ca. 1902, in Vintage Omaha.

It’s not “dance serving film, or film serving dance,” but a question of “how they can come together and make something new.” ...

Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. He created an alkaline storage battery and a kinetoscope, which was used for watching early movies. These are examples of Edison’s career highlights that ...

Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. He created an alkaline storage battery and a kinetoscope, which was used for watching early movies. These are examples of Edison’s career highlights that ...

THE present rapid increase in the number of places where the Edison Kinetoscope is exhibited, leads one to glance through the account which was published towards the end of last year of the life ...