(WDBJ) - On this day in 1897, Thomas Edison received a patent for the kinetographic camera. A certain new and useful Improvement in Kinetoscopes," the forerunner of the motion picture film projector.
In the 1890s, Thomas Edison worked with his assistant and part-time photographer, William Dickson to create a motion picture camera. They created a series of short films that could be viewed on a coin ...