Found 2 items, similar to kinetoscope.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Kinetoscope Kinetoscope n : a device invented by Edison that gave an impression of movement as an endless loop of film moved continuously over a light source with a rapid shutter; precursor of the modern motion picture
English → English (gcide) Definition: kinetoscope kinetoscope \ki*ne"to*scope\ (k[-i]*n[=e]`t[-o]*sk[=o]p; 277), n. [Gr. kinhto`s movable + -scope.] An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope. --Cope. [1913 Webster] Cinematograph \Cin`e*mat"o*graph\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion + -graph.] 1. an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zo["o]gyroscope, zo["o]praxiscope, etc. The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is the result of the introduction of the flexible film into photography in place of glass. --Encyc. Brit. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]