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A Brief History of the Kinetograph, the Kinetoscope and the Kineto-Phonograph<!--<xref ref-type="other" rid="fn1-10.5594_J12965">*</xref>-->

1933; Volume: 21; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5594/j12965

0097-5834

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson,

Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies

In the year 1879 at the age of 19 I had read much of a Mr. Edison in America and his scientific experiments, and so wrote to him to inquire whether he would take me on his staff of experimenters (Fig. 1). His reply was not encouraging.