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![World of Engineering on Twitter: "This day in history - A patent for the Kinetograph (motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (the viewer) was filed by Thomas Edison on August 24, 1891. World of Engineering on Twitter: "This day in history - A patent for the Kinetograph (motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (the viewer) was filed by Thomas Edison on August 24, 1891.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgK_H56WsAA5ZSN.jpg:large)
World of Engineering on Twitter: "This day in history - A patent for the Kinetograph (motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (the viewer) was filed by Thomas Edison on August 24, 1891.
![HISTORY TV18 on Twitter: "#DidYouKnow on #ThisDayInHistory Thomas Edison patented his first movie camera, called the kinetograph. He called the invention a “Kinetoscope,” using the Greek words “kineto” meaning “movement” and “scopos” HISTORY TV18 on Twitter: "#DidYouKnow on #ThisDayInHistory Thomas Edison patented his first movie camera, called the kinetograph. He called the invention a “Kinetoscope,” using the Greek words “kineto” meaning “movement” and “scopos”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlSHRc-V4AEIIC2.jpg)
HISTORY TV18 on Twitter: "#DidYouKnow on #ThisDayInHistory Thomas Edison patented his first movie camera, called the kinetograph. He called the invention a “Kinetoscope,” using the Greek words “kineto” meaning “movement” and “scopos”
![National Science and Media Museum on Twitter: "OnThisDay 1891 Thomas Edison patented a motion picture camera, the Kinetograph, which created films to be viewed in Kinetoscopes (pictured). You can see one of National Science and Media Museum on Twitter: "OnThisDay 1891 Thomas Edison patented a motion picture camera, the Kinetograph, which created films to be viewed in Kinetoscopes (pictured). You can see one of](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlXQEJbUwAETBW9.jpg)
National Science and Media Museum on Twitter: "OnThisDay 1891 Thomas Edison patented a motion picture camera, the Kinetograph, which created films to be viewed in Kinetoscopes (pictured). You can see one of
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