... the music so the audience could make the most out of their movie-going experience. (Edison's Kin) Edison assigned the task to William Dickson, a young man working in the West Orange facility. Dickson first placed pictures on a rotating cylinder as a basic projection 2 device. This did not prove successful until he stumbled upon the use of celluloid film. Dickson added perforations to ... the kinetoscopes were instantly successful, problems occurred when rivals began pushing for the development of a screen projection camera and also when Edison's working relationship with Dickson worsene...

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... learned of Edisons incandescent light, they gave him the nickname of "The Wizard of Menlo Park". Eight years after his astounding light bulb, Edison moved to a larger laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey. He continued with his inventions and improvements of them until he died on October 18, 1931. ...

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