were the founding concepts for motion picture cameras and projectors. In 1888 in New York City, the great inventor Thomas Edison and his British assistant William Dickson worried that others were ...

In the 1890s, Thomas Edison worked with his assistant and part-time photographer, William Dickson to create a motion picture camera. They created a series of short films that could be viewed on a ...

Edison gained fame through his various inventions, including the phonograph. His Kinetoscope, which showed moving images through a pinhole, was the forerunner to the modern motion picture camera.