Technology Tip Thursday: The Invention that Started Cinema 🎞️

Thursday is here and that means it’s another week to grace you with an installment of 💡 Technology Tip Thursday! 💡 You just couldn’t wait could you? Here we have a technology milestone that shaped entertainment for the masses.

Did you know that on August 31, 1907, Thomas Edison patented the kinetographic camera, a key invention in the history of filmmaking?

The Kinetograph was the first electrical motion picture camera, developed by Thomas Edison and William K. L. Dickson around 1890, to record sequential images on celluloid film using a sprocket system for intermittent movement. This camera's output was then viewed in Edison's Kinetoscope (a peep-hole viewer) or later projected onto a screen, laying the foundation for modern cinema by creating the illusion of movement.

Cool bit of information right?

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