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Lights, Electricity, Action: When Ronald Reagan Hosted "General Electric Theater"

Tomas Kellner
February 17, 2019
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In 2015, the National Geographic Channel launched a new television series called “Breakthrough,” focusing on scientific discovery. The series was developed by the channel and GE, and produced by Oscar winners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.

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The Boxing Cats In The Doghouse: The Untold Story Of Thomas Edison and the Earliest Movies

Tomas Kellner
February 26, 2016
Fresh from inventing the recording and playback machine (1877) and the first practical lightbulb (1879), Thomas Edison focused on moving pictures. In 1889, he filed a patent for the Kinetograph, an early movie camera.
The wooden box didn’t look like much. Inside was a complicated mechanism that used a sprocket powered by an electric motor to pull the perforated edge of unexposed celluloid film, which had just been invented by George Eastman. The film moved in front of a lens at a speed of 46 frames per second.
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