noun. An early device for viewing motion pictures, consisting of a case inside which a loop of film passes in front of an electric light, producing moving images that can be viewed through an opening in the case.

noun. A kind of movable panorama.

noun. An instrument for illustrating the results of combinations of arcs of different radii in making curves. Also called kinescope.

noun. An apparatus invented by Edison for exhibiting photographic pictures of objects in motion.

noun. An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope.

noun. An obsolete form of moving picture viewer, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision, give the impression of continuous motion. It has been superseded by more recent versions of movie projector and electronic video viewers.

noun. An early device for exhibiting motion pictures, creating the illusion of movement from a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images that is conveyed over a light source with a high-speed shutter.

noun. 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

"The party stayed to the very end of the show, though the kinetoscope was the last number but one on the programme, and fully half the audience left immediately afterward."

device  

Dictaphone  Turin  achromatic  ceiver  cinematograph  

kinescope