kinetoscope
noun
an early motion-picture device, invented by Edison, in which the film passed behind a peephole for viewing by a single viewer.
kinetoscopic
-
a word derived from
kinetoscope.
Example Sentences
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For the record, Edison's patent for a kinetoscopic camera was issued on Aug. 24, 1891, Friese-Greene's on June 21, 1889.
From Time Magazine Archive
The action raced like an overtimed kinetoscopic film.
From A Man to His Mate by Mulford, Stockton
As in stereoscopic or kinetoscopic pictures seen outside the instrument, the third dimension, the movement, the vital element, are not there.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William
His imagination flung before him kinetoscopic flashes of what his father's life had been and Horace Gower's.
From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney
His formulas are like stereoscopic or kinetoscopic photographs seen outside the instrument; they lack the depth, the motion, the vitality.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William
