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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a British inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison. [1] [2] Early life. William Kennedy Dickson was born on 3 August 1860 in Le Minihic-sur-Rance, Brittany, France.
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was born in 1860 in Minihic-Sur-Rance, France. An English engineer with a rare devotion, Dickson searched the entire world for devices that claimed to make photographs move.
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.
Instead it was William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, working in the West Orange, New Jersey, laboratories of the Edison Company, who created what was widely regarded as the first motion-picture camera. Read More
Dec 2, 2014 · William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was born in 1860 to Scottish parents and began his career in America as an assistant to the inventor and businessman Thomas Edison. Both were key figures in the experimentation of the first commercially successful moving image apparatus: the Kinetoscope (a viewer) and the Kinetograph (a camera).
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. Charles A. Brown was made Dickson's assistant.
The company was started by William Kennedy Dickson, an inventor at Thomas Edison's laboratory who helped pioneer the technology of capturing moving images on film. Dickson left Edison in April 1895, joining with inventors Herman Casler , Harry Marvin and businessman Elias Koopman to incorporate the American Mutoscope Company in New Jersey on ...
William K.L. Dickson. Cinematographer: Sandow. Born in France to British parents, William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson stayed in that country until age 19, when he, his mother and sisters (their father had died sometime before) returned to Great Britain.
William K.L. Dickson. Cinematographer: Sandow. Born in France to British parents, William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson stayed in that country until age 19, when he, his mother and sisters (their father had died sometime before) returned to Great Britain.
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson. occupation: Electrical engineer, Film-maker, Inventor. Nationality: British. born in: Brittany, France. 1879 moved to United States; in 1883 he was employed in the testing-room of the Edison Electric Light Co.; in 1884 was made Edison's photographer; 1888 became leading experimenter for the Kinetoscope; was ...
