Kinetoscope, 1888

Invented by Thomas Edison in 1888, the Kinetoscope was one of the first motion picture exhibition devices. The kinetoscope would be the basic approach to what is the standard of cinematic projection today. It was discovered by playing a certain amount of images in a given time at a high enough speed the images would appear to be in motion. On a conveying strip of perforated film placed over a light sources, the images would be projected onto a wall and appear as a motion picture.