stackyFACTSThomas Edison loved suing people into oblivion, which makes his colossal oversight regarding the Kinetoscope absolutely hilarious.
Thomas Edison loved suing people into oblivion, which makes his colossal oversight regarding the Kinetoscope absolutely hilarious. He refused to pay $150 to patent his motion picture device in Europe, allowing British instrument maker Robert W. Paul to legally reverse-engineer it. Paul then one-upped Edison by building the Animatograph, projecting films onto a screen instead of forcing people to squint into a tiny peephole.
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