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MEDICAL KINETOSCOPES,Hffi'iit Cmhi of the Invention Iti the Ntndf of IH*ea*e«The invention of the kinetoscope, which is at present attracting a large amount of popular interest, resembles some of Mr. Edison's inventions in being really an improvement on or an adaptation of discoveries of other men. This in no way implies that the fame of the American inventor is unde* served. On the contrary, it is due to his genius that mere experiments of scientists have been converted into thin#* of real and lasting benefit to civilisation. Sir Humphrey Davy discovered that carbon could he rendered incandescent in a current of electric- j itv, and that oxygen consumed tho ■ carbon; but it remained for Edison to exclude the oxygen ami to give the . electric arc light to civilization, The main essentials of the phonograph H were in use Iwfore Edison conceived 11 the Idea of making a practical use of , i the machine. The Muybridge photo- h graphs were the forerunners of the kinetoscope.It has been proclaimed that the time is now at hand when books and the- ; uters will become rarities, and the , average citizen will Is* content to use , the phonograph and the kinetoscope for i his pleasure. Such a prediction is over- lt;sanguine, as yet, for the reason that these inventions are not yet perfect. The beauty of concerted music or of rare Ringing is still marred by the j electric whir and the false sounds that ( issue from the phonograph's dia- j phragm. The splendid color and daz- , zling luster of the opera’s stage are as i yet I mb yon d the gaspofthe kinetoscope. i Perhaps these things may come some :1 dav. but thev have not come v»*t. and 1v e j jin the mean time the present generation \n concerned chiefly with the thingpi of ^ to-day* The telephone, for instance,!* f of more immediate «m* to civilisation t than are the phonograph and kineto- | scope combined. 1SLf» i it r» oti h i k u nl eon * 11* tillVtfl oortliin t
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Freeborn County Standard
Albert Lea, Minnesota, US
Wed, Nov 14, 1894
Page 6
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