Dickson, William Kennedy
(1860–1935)
Dickson, William Kennedy (1860–1935) British inventor. He came to the U.S. and in 1882 began working for Thomas Edison; he became laboratory chief and assisted in electrical research. In 1888–1889 he developed Edison’s idea for combining the phonograph with motion pictures. Dickson wrote in his 1895 History of the Kinetograph (the first textbook on cinematography), that “the establishment of harmonious relations between Kinetograph [the camera] and Phonograph was a harrowing task, and would…