Mutoscope
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The Mutoscope is an early motion picture device, invented by W. K. L. Dickson and Herman Casler and granted U.S. patent 549309A to Herman Casler on November 5, 1895. Like Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope,
An 1899 trade advertisement
Mutoscope at Herne Bay Museum
Mutoscope in San Francisco antique arcade
Raree show
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A raree show, peep show or peep box is an exhibition of pictures or objects, viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass. In 17th- and 18th-century Europe, it was a popular form of entertainment p
Mutoscope
…patent 549309A to Herman Casler on November 5, 1895. Like Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, it does not project on a screen and provides viewing to only one person at a time. Cheaper and simpler than the Kinetoscope, the system, marketed by the American Mutoscope Company (later the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company…
A boy looks into a peep show device (illustration by Theodor Hosemann, 1835)
Peep show in Golestan Palace, Tehran
Engraving of a drawing of a Chinese peep show by 'Pu-Qua(蒲呱)' of Canton engraved by Dadley, published May 4, 1799 by W. Miller, Old Bond Street, London