A Brief History of the Kinetograph, the Kinetoscope and the Kineto-Phonograph

W. K. Laurie Dickson

In the year 1879 at the age of 19 I had read much of a Mr. Edison in America and his scientific experiments, and so wrote to him to inquire whether he would take me on his staff of experimenters (Fig. 1). His reply was not encouraging.

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1933-12
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Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J12965