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  William Kennedy Dickson

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was born in Brittany, France to English and Scottish parents on August 3, Little is known about his childhood beyond his his interest in science.

In , the year-old contacted American inventor Thomas Edison in search of a job. Unfortunately, Mr. Edison was not hiring any additional personnel at that time, but nevertheless Mr. Dickson immigrated to the United States accompanied by his mother and sisters.

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Four years later, he again contacted Mr. Edison, and his persistence paid off with a job at the Goerk Street laboratory of Edison Electric Works in New York City. He was quickly promoted to Superintendent, in charge of developing electric power and light systems, and also performed any required photography experiments.

In , Mr. Dickson was moved to the Edison laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, where he began working on motion photography that was inspired by Eadweard James Muybridge's sequential motion photog