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What is a kinetoscope?

What is a kinetoscope? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An early device for exhibiting motion pictures, creating the illusion of movement from a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images that is conveyed over a light source with a high-speed shutter.
  2. An instrument for illustrating the production of kinematic curves by the combination of circular movements of different radii.
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He patented over 1,000 inventions, including the phonograph, the mimeograph and the kinetoscope, a forerunner of motion pictures.
They are often cheap and degrading, though the kinetoscope can be made valuable for education.
It was to him, with his splendid power of vision, like gazing into a kinetoscope.
I had come across the Futuroscope, otherwise a kinetoscope with the gift of prophecy.
It is too bad the kinetoscope, cinematograph, or some other moving-picture machine had not been invented.
Edison also developed the kinetograph: a camera capable of recording films compatible with the kinetoscope.

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