kinetoscopes

The kinetoscopes were initially a hit when they first appeared in arcades around 1894, but soon their popularity declined – people became bored with selection of films that Edison was producing.

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I recommend it to any fans of William Gibson and to anyone who gets excited at the mention of Jacquard looms, Babbage engines and kinetoscopes.

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Another of the industries at the Orange works is the manufacture of projecting kinetoscopes, by means of which the motion pictures are shown.

Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 1910

Another of the industries at the Orange works is the manufacture of projecting kinetoscopes, by means of which the motion pictures are shown.

Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

And is there not the phonograph specialist? to say nothing of Crooke's tubes, electrical apparatus, kinetoscopes, and phonographs?

TWO GOLD BRICKS 1897

Quite possibly, such Martian folk are possessed of inventions of which we have not dreamed, and with them electrophones and kinetoscopes are things of a bygone past, preserved with veneration in museums as relics of the clumsy contrivances of the simple childhood of their kind.

Mars 1895

Quite possibly such Martian folk are possessed of inventions of which we have not dreamed, and with them electrophones and kinetoscopes are things of a bygone past, preserved with veneration in museums as relics of the clumsy contrivances of the simple childhood of the race.

Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries 1890