William Kennedy Dickson | |
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 Frame from the 1891 Dickson Greeting, featuring William Kennedy Dickson, in the first American film shown to a public audience. | |
| Born | William Kennedy Laurie Dickson 3 August 1860 Le Minihic-sur-Rance, Brittany, France |
| Died | 28 September 1935 (aged 75) Twickenham, Middlesex, England |
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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.[1][2]
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- ^ "William Dickson, Scottish inventor and photographer", Science & Society Picture Library, accessed 18 September 2010