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![HISTORY TV18 on Twitter: "#DidYouKnow on #ThisDayInHistory Thomas Edison patented his first movie camera, called the kinetograph. He called the invention a “Kinetoscope,” using the Greek words “kineto” meaning “movement” and “scopos” HISTORY TV18 on Twitter: "#DidYouKnow on #ThisDayInHistory Thomas Edison patented his first movie camera, called the kinetograph. He called the invention a “Kinetoscope,” using the Greek words “kineto” meaning “movement” and “scopos”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlSHRc-V4AEIIC2.jpg)
HISTORY TV18 on Twitter: "#DidYouKnow on #ThisDayInHistory Thomas Edison patented his first movie camera, called the kinetograph. He called the invention a “Kinetoscope,” using the Greek words “kineto” meaning “movement” and “scopos”
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EntertainmentTech: The History of the Kinetograph, the World's First Motion Picture Camera | iTech Post
Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies. [web presentation]:Bibliographic Record Description: Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress
![World of Engineering on Twitter: "This day in history - A patent for the Kinetograph (motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (the viewer) was filed by Thomas Edison on August 24, 1891. World of Engineering on Twitter: "This day in history - A patent for the Kinetograph (motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (the viewer) was filed by Thomas Edison on August 24, 1891.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgK_H56WsAA5ZSN.jpg:large)
World of Engineering on Twitter: "This day in history - A patent for the Kinetograph (motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (the viewer) was filed by Thomas Edison on August 24, 1891.
On this day in 1897 — 125 years ago — Thomas Edison received a patent for his movie camera, the Kinetograph - Frank Beacham's Journal
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