William Kennedy Dickson
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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a British-American inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison.
Dickson, c. 1898
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