Thomas Edison was a savvy businessman, he held more than a 1,000 patents for his inventions. In
October 1888 Edison had an idear for a device that would “do the eye what
the phonograph does for the ear”. The Kinetoscope,
Using the greak words Kineto
,Movement, and Scopos, to watch, was actually invented by his
assistant William Kennedy Laurie Dickson in June 1889.
›It
produced around 48 FPS but it made a lot of noise to make it run properly.
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