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William Kennedy Dickson
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a British-American inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison.
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science · British-American inventor (1860–1935) · inventor · film director · film producer · cinematographer · actor · photographer · engineer · camera operator · director · screenwriter · also William Kennedy Dickson, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, William Dickson, William K.L. Dickson, William K. L. Dickson, William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson
Born 3 August 1860 · Died 28 September 1935 · Q465350
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,648 times.
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1935· 1 entry
Died 1935-09-28.
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1894· 1 entry
Directed The Dickson Experimental Sound Film
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1890· 1 entry
In descriptions of the moving picture camera of William Friese-Greene
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1888· 1 entry
Edison conceived of a device that would do "for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear"
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1883· 1 entry
Was finally hired to work at Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey
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1879· 1 entry
William Dickson wrote a letter to American inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison seeking employment
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1860· 1 entry
Born 1860-08-03.
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