...was a part, makes clear the relationship between the two inventions (Jenkins & Jeffrey, 1984, p. 5): I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for...the recording and reproduction of things in motion. . . . The invention consists in photographing continuously a series of pictures occuring [sic] at intervals...

...phonograph. As he explained in an 1888 patent caveat, his motion picture machine or kinetoscope was to do "for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear,...the recording and reproduction of things in motion". 8 Edison drew on this phonograph analogy in two ways. First, he used it to design his first kinetoscope...

...am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the F.ye what the phonograph does for the I-'ar, which is the recording and reproduction of things in motion, and in such a form to be both Cheap practical and convenient.' (original spelling and punctuation, reprinted in llendricks....

...applications relating to the same invention, for the period of one year.) Edison's caveat declared "I am experimenting upon an instrument which does...the recording and reproduction of things in motion. . . . The illusion is complete and we may see & hear a whole Opera as perfectly as if actually present...

...complexity is the goal of what follows. INSCRIPTIONS AND SIMULATIONS The Imagination of Technology / am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the Eye what the Phonograph does for the Ear. — Thomas Edison (October 1888)1 Was it really so clear only ten years after its first exhibition...

...declaration of his intention to enter a field that in fact had already been well-traversed by others: "I am experimenting upon an instrument which does...form as to be both Cheap practical and convenient. This apparatus I call a Kinetoscope 'Moving View.' " Modifying this statement six years subsequently,...

...stay ahead or outdistance the others. Edison's intention was to develop an instrument "that would do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear, which is the recording and reproducing things in motion." The first motion pictures were viewed by looking through a viewing hole...

...1888: Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb and phonograph, begins experimenting with a device which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear. His assistant, WK Dickson, does most of the work, lighting rows of tiny photographs. 1891: Edison and...

...for example, he imagined that the moving picture would be the visual equivalent of the phonograph, "an instrument which does for the Eye what the phonograph...the recording and reproduction of things in motion." Historian Thomas Hughes has written that Edison had "an ability to find metaphors that allowed him...

...first of Thomas Edison's motion picture caveats filed with the US Patent Office begins as follows: I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for...and in such a form as to be both Cheap practical and convenient.3 The first phrase of this sentence makes it quite clear that Edison's new invention is...