One spring day in 1894, Thomas Edison unveiled a remarkable moving picture machine called the Kinetoscope in a Manhattan parlor. Some 500 people lined up to drop quarters into what was the Oculus Rift ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1897, Thomas Edison received a patent for the kinetographic camera. A certain new and useful Improvement in Kinetoscopes," the forerunner of the motion picture film projector.

Though most famous for his Promethean invention of the light bulb, Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope 112 years ago today, igniting the medium that became the motion picture industry. While the ...

When inventor Thomas Edison first began toying with the idea of improving upon moving image technology, he filed a note with the patents office in 1888, expressing his intent. He wrote that he hoped ...

“Moving pictures” are a luxury we take for granted. But, it was only 125 years ago this month that Thomas Edison conceptualized their creation in his first preliminary patent filed with the Old Patent ...

Before he was a legendary inventor, Thomas Edison was a telegraph operator. By the 1920s, Thomas Edison was a prolific inventor and quite possibly the most famous man in the world. But before he ...

With the vacation upon us already and the pandemic scene relenting a bit, one of the activities that most families tend to do over the weekend is visiting a theatre to watch a new movie. Even though ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Thomas Alva Edison, circa 1871 Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Pretty much everyone knows that Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and the light bulb, but ...