Thomas Edison is one of the best-known inventors of all time. He was granted a total of 1,093 US patents. In 1984, Thomas Edison, invented Kinetoscope, the first device for showing moving pictures. He came up with the idea after meeting English inventor Eadweard Muybridge, who pioneered the photography of movement. The Kinetoscope and an associated camera were developed by a British assistant of Edison, WKL Dickson, and led to the cinema.
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