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Kinetoscope

Kinetoscope

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On this date in 1897, Thomas edison patented the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. (via Wikipedia) Just a little over a hundred years ago, there was, not only no such thing as television, but no such thing as movies even. Although the science fiction of the day imagined space travel, television and its impact on [...]

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What is SF?

What is SF?

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The earliest known usage of the term “science fiction” is in 1851 (in Chapter 10 of William Wilson’s A Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject), in which he writes: “Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true.” However [...]

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