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Wednesday, July 02, 2014

This Cognitive Tool Helped Thomas Edison Discover His Inventions

Back in 1887, Thomas Edison and his crew in West Orange, New Jersey, invented one of the first ways to view a motion picture: a kinetoscope.

It was like a super early version of the film projector. A string of photographs would flash across a peephole, where folks could view a moving image.

As National Geographic notes, Edison was tipped to the idea from the British photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Muybridge made images like the below gif, which clued Edison to the fact that motion could be conveyed through a series of photos.

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