Vitascope

Rarity: Common

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At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Vitascope was an early film projector first demonstrated in 1895 by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. They had made modifications to Jenkins' patented Phantoscope, which cast images via film and electric light onto a wall or screen.

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Image: Metropolitan Print Company; Copyright 1896 by Raff & Gammon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.