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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.
It was to him, with his splendid power of vision, like gazing into a kinetoscope.
We stand today in the midst of this external growth of which no one dreamed in the days of the kinetoscope.
Swiftly, with a click like that of the mechanism in a kinetoscope, the scene changed.
This series of eleven short films filmed in kinetoscope represent the founding films of cinema.
The houses on either side shot past like pictures in the kinetoscope.

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