100 Years Ago: "Edison Makes Shadows Talk," Washington Herald, Aug. 27, 1910

 

100 Years Ago: "Edison Makes Shadows Talk," Washington Herald, Aug. 27, 1910

In 1910, Thomas A. Edison, inventor extraordinaire, demonstrated a new technique for synchronizing moving pictures and phonographs using a "kinetophone." The article describes the system as "A phonograph...located behind the screen..." connected to "the moving picture machine" and "controlled by a pulley which runs across the ceiling." The demonstration, for scientists and reporters, included a moving picture presentation on canvas of a lecturer explaining the new technique with accompanying sound.... Read more about it!

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