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 ...

But the ‘Wizard’ is revered for his contributions to the light bulb, the phonograph, the telephone transmitter and the motion picture camera. “Thomas Edison is probably the most brilliant inventor ...

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.