KIDS QUIZ
FAMOUS INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
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The Wright Brothers
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Thomas Edison
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George Washington Carver
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Detailed explanation-1: -Edison’s laboratory was responsible for the invention of the Kinetograph (a motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (a peep-hole motion picture viewer). Most of this work was performed by Edison’s assistant, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, beginning in 1888.
Detailed explanation-2: -A patent for the Kinetograph (the camera) and the Kinetoscope (the viewer) was filed on August 24, 1891. Edison’s Kinetoscope, open. Film was threaded on rollers as a continuo us ribbon.
Detailed explanation-3: -Seeking to provide a visual accompaniment to the phonograph, Edison commissioned Dickson, a young laboratory assistant, to invent a motion-picture camera in 1888.
Detailed explanation-4: -The earliest copyrighted film that still survives is Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, January 7, 1894, also known as Fred Ott’s Sneeze, which records Fred Ott, an Edison employee, sneezing comically for the camera.