WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Henry Bessemer
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Christopher Sholes
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Nikolaus A. Otto
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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Thomas Edison
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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: -Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, and it quickly became the most popular home-entertainment device of the century. 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-3: -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.