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This Day in Patent History - On October 17, 1888, Thomas Edison filed a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). Edison claimed is that it will ‘do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear.’

On October 17, 1888, Thomas Edison filed a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). Edison claimed is that it will ‘do for the…