Projecting Kinetoscope no. 7238

Sale 5326

Motion Picture Cameras

London, South Kensington

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25 July 2007

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Lot 8

Projecting Kinetoscope no. 7238

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GBP 600

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GBP 400 - GBP 600

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Projecting Kinetoscope no. 7238
Edison Mfg. Co., Orange, NJ, USA; 35mm., wood-body with metal plate EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPE. PATENTED BY THOMAS A. EDISON MARCH 14 1893 AUGUST 31 1897 OTHER PATENTS PENDING. MANUFACTURED BY EDISON MFG. CO., ORANGE, N.J., U.S.A., black-painted metal and steel fittings and mechanism including film arm and hand-crank, with a Bausch & Lomb helically-focusing lens; two metal film magazines
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United States patent number 493,426 was applied for by Edison on 24 August 1891 and issued on 14 March 1893 for 'An Apparatus for Exhibiting Photographs of Moving Objects' [The Kinetoscope]; patent number 589,168 for a 'Kinematographic camera' was applied for on 24 August 1891 and issued on 31 August 1897.

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Projecting Kinetoscope no. 7238

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