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   Thomas Edison

   Edison was also granted a patent for the motion picture camera or "Kinetograph". ... The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World.
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   History of erotic depictions

   Women looked indirectly at the camera, as if they were going about their private idylls. ... William Kennedy Dickson, while working for Thomas Edison, invented the first practical celluloid film and worked on making the kinetoscope, a peep show machine showing a continuous loop of the film Dickson invented lit by an Edison light source.
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   List of characters in Time Squad

   The problem is solved when Winston sees that himself on Larry's built-in camera/projector and is appalled to see how overweight he is. ... They go back to Otto who says that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
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   Kinetoscope

   The lab also developed a motor-powered camera, the Kinetograph, capable of shooting with the new sprocketed film. ... Thomas Edison
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   History of film

   In 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair, Thomas Edison introduced to the public two pioneering inventions based on this innovation; the Kinetograph - the first practical moving picture camera - and the Kinetoscope. ... This enabled the development of imitations, such as the camera devised by British electrician and scientific instrument maker Robert W. Paul and his partner Birt Acres.
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   Format war

   In 1877 Thomas Edison invented sound recording technology using a tin cylinder record, and soon thereafter mass-marketed the wax "Edison cylinder".
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   35 mm film

   A wide variety of largely proprietary gauges were used by the numerous camera and projection systems invented independently in the late 19th century and early 20th century, ranging from 13 mm to 75 mm (0.51–2.95 in). ... This is a derivation of the aspect ratio and frame size designated by Thomas Edison (24.89 mm by 18.67 mm or 0.980 in by 0.735 in) at the dawn of motion pictures, which was an aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
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   List of United States inventions

   The Bell and Edison patents, however, were forensically victorious and commercially decisive. ... Tea bags were invented by Thomas Sullivan around 1908.
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   Louis Le Prince

   These were several years before the work of competing inventors such as Thomas Edison and Auguste and Louis Lumière. ... By citing Le Prince's achievements Mutuscope hoped to annul Edison's subsequent claims to have invented the moving picture camera.
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    March 10

    1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.

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• Kinetoscope,
• History of film,
• Format war,
• 35 mm film,
• List of United States inventions,
• Louis Le Prince,
• March 10