kinetograph
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- kinetographer noun
- kinetographic adjective
- kinetography noun
Etymology
Origin of kinetograph
Example Sentences
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After years of experimentation, Edison patented a movie camera called the Kinetograph in 1897.
From Salon
The point was for Edison to showcase his lab’s glorious new invention: the kinetograph.
From The New Yorker
“That was fun. Any questions for me? The inventor of the kinetograph?”
From The New Yorker
He also takes us into the 1890s studio of Thomas Edison, who worked on his kinetograph movie camera and kinetoscope peep-show box.
From Seattle Times
That precise point in the ether where the event occurred, and which has long since been left behind by the passage of the solar system through space, can be visited and made to yield up its record as by kinetograph; or the surroundings may be reproduced as on a stage, and the one who persists in falsifying is suddenly placed there and told to act his part again according to his own story.
From Project Gutenberg
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