WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Oh, Edison!
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Choosing Chaplin
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Ringing Alexander’s Bell
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William Goldwyn:Precious Inventor
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Detailed explanation-1: -Oh Edison! Explanation: The reason being, he invented the motion picture camera, so in turn, invented motion pictures.
Detailed explanation-2: -Edison’s assistant, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, was given the task of inventing the device in June 1889, possibly because of his background as a photographer.
Detailed explanation-3: -Most Americans believe that Thomas Edison invented the motion picture with his Kinetoscope machine in 1891. The French give credit for this development to Auguste and Louis Lumière, who hosted the first commercial motion picture screening in Paris in December 1895.
Detailed explanation-4: -Kinetoscope, forerunner of the motion-picture film projector, invented by Thomas A. Edison and William Dickson of the United States in 1891. In it, a strip of film was passed rapidly between a lens and an electric light bulb while the viewer peered through a peephole.
Detailed explanation-5: -Edison’s laboratory was responsible for the invention of the Kinetograph (a motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (a peep-hole motion picture viewer).