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Date: | Wed, 2 Aug 1995 09:00:36 -0400 |
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Good lord, you haven't really bought into Hendrick's polemics, have you? Have
you done any original reseach on your own at the Edison archives in West
Orange, NJ, or anywhere else? While Edison was not the only inventor working
on motion picture technology, he and his staff did extremely original work in
the late 1880s and early 1890s. Have you see/read Edison's patent caveat 110?
Have you seen/read the experimental notebooks and machines at his labs in NJ?
Certainly Edison was not the sole inventor of motion pictures, but no one
else is the SOLE inventor, either. Freise-Greene in England, Lumiere in
France, et all were all at work on various forms of motion picture in that
period. To call Edison a theif is simply to be ignorant of the scholarship
and the whole story. Invention is a social process, often spanning multiple
people.
Pointing museum visitors who are working on interactives back to working
inventors...be those Edison or others...is important for putting creative
activity in context.
Ed Pershey
Western Reserve Historical Society
Cleveland, Ohio
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