When you hear the name, Thomas Edison, what comes to mind? A light bulb? In reality, Thomas didn’t invent the light bulb; he improved upon it. His contributions to science still impact our world today. Edison invented and improved devices for communication, and for the distribution of electric light, power, and heat. He was quite a forward thinker, and the light bulb isn’t the only thing he stepped up a notch. He was intrigued by setting pictures in motion as well.
While primitive inventions existed that would make images seem to move, there was nothing that truly came anywhere close to what could be called a “movie.I was looking for more information and found it here.” Edison had already invented a way to record voice with the phonograph, and he wanted to record and reproduce objects in motion as well.
In 1891 the product of this desire was born, and he called it the Kinetoscope. In his laboratories, Thomas was able to invent a single camera that could record successive images. This invention revolutionized motion picture devices. It was much more practical than other methods that utilized multiple cameras, and it was a more cost effective mode of capture. The first movies made by Edison had no sound, but in 1912 he invented the Kinetophone, which allowed for “talking” motion pictures.

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