| 1893 |
 Chronomedia index
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| February 1 |
 Edison
completes construction of the Black Maria studio [right] |
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| February 2 |
 Fred
Ott's Sneeze [left] is said to have been filmed this day at Edison's Black Maria studio. |
à 1894 |
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Edison plans to launch the Kinetoscope at the World’s Fair in Chicago but
the equipment is not ready in time. |
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| May 9 |
First demonstration of the Edison/Dickson Kinetoscope in public is given at the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in New York. |
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| August |
First Edison films are deposited for copyright at the Library of Congress in the
name of W K L Dickson. |
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| l |
Emile Reynaud invents the Praxinoscope projection device. |
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| l |
Eadweard Muybridge produces Zoöpraxiscope discs
based on his pictures of animals in motion, a process he calls Zoöpraxography. |
The quest for home video: Muybridge Zoöpraxography |
| l |
Léon Bouly is granted a French patent (no 219350) for the
Cinématographe Bouly, an improved version of the previous
year's device. The patent is later sold to Antoine Lumière. |
The camera is kept by the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris.
à 1894 |
| l |
Telephony service begins in the Osaka-Kobe area of Japan using two manual
switching systems and 224 Gower-Bell telephone units. |
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| l |
Emile Berliner begins marketing disc gramophones in the US. |
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