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jan 16, 1888 - kinetoscope created

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the kinetoscope was created by Thomas Edison as a way of showing short moving image clips however they could only be shown to one person at a time and was the prototype to modern cinema projectors becoming the groundwork for more modern designs like the cinematograph

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jan 16, 1888
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~ 138 years ago

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