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Example sentences for "kinetoscope"

Lexicographically close words:
kinematics; kinematograph; kiner; kinetic; kinetics; kinfolk; kinfolks; king; kingbird; kingbirds
  1. The clearness of the kinetoscope drama passed, and the struggle in the vast place of streets, the ambiguous Council, the swift phases of his waking hour, came back.

  2. Incontinently the little kinetoscope was dropped, Graham was invited to stand in front of the machine and the tailor muttered some instructions to the crop-haired lad, who answered in guttural tones and with words Graham did not recognise.

  3. Now this trick of decomposing continuous motion into successive pictures like the kinetoscope and decomposing continuous space into successive spots like the printing process, is the way we do our thinking.

  4. This we can do with a kinetoscope camera which takes snapshots at the rate of fifty a second.

  5. But if we wink rapidly, we can catch glimpses of the legs of the horse or the spokes of the wheel, thus like the kinetoscope transforming motion into immobility by intermittent attention.

  6. The kinetoscope showed each picture on the film to the eye for about ¹/₄₀th of a minute, so that the figures seemed to move as in actual life.

  7. It was easy to combine a projecting lantern and a kinetoscope so that the little photographs on the film could be thrown on a screen and enlarged and this is the principle of all moving-picture machines as they are now constructed.

  8. In Edison's kinetoscope a strip of celluloid film forty-five feet in length with a series of pictures each three-quarters of an inch long moved continuously over a series of rolls.

  9. The problem did not arise with the kinetoscope only but had interested the preceding generations who amused themselves with the phenakistoscope and the stroboscopic disks or the magic cylinder of the zoötrope and bioscope.

  10. With Edison's kinetoscope the moving pictures had become a means for popular amusement and entertainment, and the appetite of commercialism was whetted.

  11. In the kinetoscope the films passed by continuously.

  12. By various kinds of kinetoscope we can reproduce a rudimentary sort of picture of an event which has taken place in a good light.

  13. Brander Matthews in The Kinetoscope of Time introduces an instrument with eyepieces that show magic vision.

  14. Hundreds of patents have been made on cameras, projecting lenses and machines from the days of the kinetoscope to the present time when clear-cut moving pictures portray life so closely and so well as almost to deceive the eye.

  15. It was hailed with delight at the time and for a short period was much in demand, but soon new devices came into the field and the kinetoscope was superseded by other machines bearing similar names with a like signification.

  16. Edison's Kinetoscope is covered by patent No.

  17. Carter tried her lungs with his new kinetoscope an' found 'em full of air an' nothin' else.

  18. 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.

  19. The principles of the kinetoscope or mutoscope have been applied to the microscope, with some interesting results, by Dr.

  20. The problem of the kinetoscope stereopticon was to successfully project these little images several thousand times, and secure sufficient illumination upon the screen to make them appear distinct and clear.

  21. In the kinetoscope the successive images are illuminated by reflected light, and are seen through a lens enlarging them considerably, say from half an inch in diameter to about four inches.

  22. They constituted rather an accurate kinetoscope view of the yearly lives of chance passing workers in those trades.

  23. So that the synthesis of these chronicles is presented, not as a composite photograph of the industrial experiences in any one trade, but rather as an accurate kinetoscope view of the yearly life of chance passing factory workers.

  24. We have maintained that the kinetoscope in the hands of artists is a higher form of picture writing.

  25. It is only in the hands of the prophetic photo-playwright and allied artists that the kinetoscope reels become as mysterious and dazzling to the thinking spirit as the wheels of Ezekiel in the first chapter of his prophecy.

  26. Sooner or later the kinetoscope will do what he could not, bring the nobler side of the equality idea to the people who are so crassly equal.

  27. The kinetoscope is only a small model illustrating the present stage of the progress, but with each succeeding month new possibilities are brought into view.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kinetoscope" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.