When celebrated American inventor Thomas Alva Edison finally authored the Kinetoscope (a machine for recording actual movement on film and another m...
These scans of authentic original cards are invaluable collectors items, as they represent a portion of the cards that have survived the passage of ...
Strangely, baseball did not enjoy the same popularity internationally as basketball or American football, but it generated sufficient interest withi...
It was a historical discovery - a sequence of individual still pictures, when set in motion, can give the illusion of movement. When this phenomenon...
In 1888, Edison began experimenting upon an instrument that would "do for the eye what phonograph does for the ear." At this juncture, Edison was fo...
As televisions became more common-place in homes during the 1950's, the emphasis shifted to programs designed to bring in advertising dollars to the...