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W. K.-L. Dickson

(Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935)

Film still from Dickson Greeting, the oldest American film shown to a public audience (in 1891)

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a British-American inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison. (From Wikipedia)

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1 additional book about W. K.-L. Dickson in the extended shelves:

The biograph in battle : its story in the South African War (T. Fisher Unwin, 1901), by W. K.-L. Dickson (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by W. K.-L. Dickson:

Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935: History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph (reprint, originally published 1895; New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1970), also by Antonia Dickson (page images at HathiTrust)
Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935: The Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), also by Antonia Dickson, illust. by R. F. Outcalt, L. Bauhan, and James Ricalton (page images at HathiTrust)

Additional books by W. K.-L. Dickson in the extended shelves:

Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935: The biograph in battle : its story in the South African War (T. Fisher Unwin, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust)
Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935: The life and inventions of Thomas Alva Edision (T. Y. Crowell, 1894), also by Antonia Dickson (page images at HathiTrust)

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