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	Thomas Armat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas J. Armat (1866 - September 30, 1948) was an American mechanic and inventor, a pioneer of cinema best known through the co-invention of the Edison Vitascope.
		Armat studied at the Mechanics Instuitute in Richmond, Virginia and then in 1894 at the Bliss School of Electricity in Washington, D.C., where he met Charles Francis Jenkins.
		In 1947, Armat and William N. Selig, Albert Edward Smith and George K. Spoor were awarded a Special Academy Award as representatives of the movie pioneers for their contributions to the film business.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Armat (331 words)

	Thomas Edison - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey with the stockticker and improved telegraphic devices being invented there, but the invention which first gained Edison wide fame was the phonograph in 1877.
		This was important to Thomas Edison especially because he had been searching for a way to entertain customers that were listening to music on his phonograph.
		The town of Edison, New Jersey, and Thomas Edison State College, a nationally-known college for adult learners in Trenton, New Jersey, are named for the inventor.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Thomas_Edison (2308 words)

	Thomas Armat -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thomas J. Armat (1866 - September 30, 1948) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American mechanic and (Someone who is the first to think of or make something) inventor, a pioneer of (A theater where films are shown) cinema best known through the co-invention of the Edison Vitascope.
		Jenkins tried to claim sole inventorship, but was turned down and sold out to Armat, who subsequently joined and sold the patent to (United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)) Thomas Edison, who marketed the machine as the Vitascope.
		The projector was used in the famous public screening in (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City beginning April 23, 1896 and lasting more than a week.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Th/Thomas_Armat.htm (246 words)

	19th century in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		March 14, 1893 - Thomas Edison is granted Patent #493,426 for "An Apparatus for Exhibiting Photographs of Moving Objects" (The Kinetoscope).
		Armat began working with Thomas Edison to manufacture the Vitascope, which projected motion pictures.
		April, 1896 - Thomas Edison and Thomas Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/19th_century_in_film (1112 words)

	Thomas Edison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an inventor and businessman who developed many important devices.
		Thomas Alva Edison's ancestors, the Dutch Edesons, came to New Jersey in 1730.
		Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio to Samuel Ogden Edison II (1804-1896); and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810-1871).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_edison (2959 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: The Thomas Armat Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Armat" (C. Brooke Armat ?) regarding a research paper by Eustis entitled "Thomas Armat, Charles Francis Jenkins, and Motion Pictures in Washington, 1894 - 1910." Includes a copy of the paper.
		Armat was enrolled at the Bliss School of Electricity when he was intorduced to C. Francis Jenkins by Bliss himself.
		Armat was enrolled at the Bliss School of Electricity when he was first introduced to C. Francis Jenkins by L. Bliss.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/ARMAT_PAPERS.html (2933 words)

	USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN 610) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After 18 years of service, the THOMAS A. EDISON was redesignated as SSN 610 to comply with the SALT I treaty on October 6, 1980, and concrete blocks were placed in the missile tubes to disable the submarine's missile launch capability.
		USS THOMAS A. EDISON collides with the USS LEFTWICH (DD 984).
		On October 6, 1980, the THOMAS A. EDISON was redesignated as SSN 610 to comply with the SALT I treaty and concrete blocks were placed in the missile tubes to disable the submarine's missile launch capability.
	navysite.de /ssbn/ssbn610.htm (1377 words)

	Encyclopedia: Thomas Edison
		Thomas had a late start in his schooling due to childhood illnesses.
		Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey with the automatic repeater and other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention which first gained Edison wide fame was the phonograph in 1877.
		Thomas Edison was a freethinker, and was most likely a deist, claiming he did not believe in "the God of the theologians," but did not doubt that "there is a Supreme Intelligence." However, he rejected the idea of the supernatural, along with such ideas as the soul, immortality, and a personal God.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thomas-Edison (6808 words)

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		It remained for Thomas Armat to devise a machine capable of projecting a picture from film onto a screen in 1895.
		Thomas A. Edison was laid down on 15 March 1960 at Groton, Conn., by the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corp.; launched on 15 June 1961; sponsored by Mrs.
		Thomas A. Edison carried out operations along the west coast until December at which time she headed for her new home port, Guam.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t4/thomas_a_edison.htm (1024 words)

	HSP Manuscript Guide: 1900-1999
		After 1800 Thomas Armat turned increasingly to other business enterprises, especially dry-goods merchandizing and real estate, and from about 1820 he was known simply as Thomas Armat, gentleman.
		Among the Armat & Copper records are a letterbook, 1801-1806, journals, 1799-1804, and an inventory book, 1801; Thomas Armat & Son records are limited to journals, 1795-1797; Thomas W. Armat business records consist of a letterbook, 1798-1801, journals, 1798-1799, receipt books, 1796-1807, and a journal of Thomas W. Armat's estate, 1806-1808.
		The Hopkinson family was a prominent political family of Philadelphia and Bordentown, N.J. Thomas Hopkinson, 1709-1751, was a merchant, a lawyer, and judge of the vice-admiralty for the province of Pennsylvania.
	www2.hsp.org /collections/manuscripts/1900.htm (12393 words)

	Thomas Edison Motion Picture Projector (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		IMA Hero: Thomas Alva Edison HH - Thomas A. Edison was a hero -- read about his life, the times in which...
		Thomas Edison - The Inventions of Thomas Edison - Kinetoscope - Motion Pictures Projector Thomas Edison's interest in motion pictures began before 1888, however, the visit of Eadweard Muybridge to his...
		Thomas Alva Edison - The phonograph and the motion-picture projector were only a few of Thomas Alva Edison's more than 1000 inventions.
	www.shopprojector.com /thomas-edison-motion-picture-projector.html (622 words)

	1896 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January - In the United States, a projector called the Vitascope was designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat.
		April - Thomas Edison and Thomas Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City
		May 14 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia crowned in Moscow, in the first coronation ever recorded in film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1896_in_film (192 words)

	THE THOMAS ARMAT PAPERS: FOLDER LISTING
		Thomas Armat regarding a biographical entry on Thomas Armat in the NCAB.
		Possibly the indenture to the Armat House in the photo of the prveious folder.
		References to Thomas armat and their patents held in common.
	gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/fl/f94}1.htm (2912 words)

	Thomas Armat House - Accounting & Tax Services, Philadelphia, PA 215-248-5585 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Thomas Armat House (Federal, H. 61) stands on property bought by George Bringhurst from John Jarrett in 1726.
		It was subsequently owned by Robert Waln, Thomas Morgan, who probably built the house about 1792, and James Ashmead.
		This stone house is two and a half stories high and has a cellar.
	www.brennantax.com /armat_info.html (263 words)

	Kinetoscope -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		motion-picture projector patented by Thomas Armat in 1895; its principal features are retained in the modern projector: sprocketed film operated with a mechanism (the “Maltese cross”) to stop each frame briefly before the lens, and a loop in the film to ease the strain.
		The invention of Louis and Auguste Lumière, manufacturers of photographic materials of Lyon, Fr., it was based in part on the Kinetoscope of Thomas A. Edison in the United States and in part on the Théâtre Optique of Émile Reynaud in Paris.
		Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, and it quickly become the most popular home entertainment device of the century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9045495?tocId=9045495 (649 words)

	Edison:The Life of Thomas A. Edison
		One of the most famous and prolific inventors of all time, Thomas Alva Edison exerted a tremendous influence on modern life, contributing inventions such as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera, as well as improving the telegraph and telephone.
		Thomas A. Edison's forebears lived in New Jersey until their loyalty to the British crown during the American Revolution drove them to Nova Scotia, Canada.
		Thomas Alva Edison was born to Sam and Nancy on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/edhtml/edbio.html (3329 words)

	Moravian College Magazine - Winter 2002
		Thomas’s father, Thomas Armat, born in Cumberland, England, in 1748, had emigrated to the colonies in the 1760s and become a wealthy, prominent dry goods merchant during the Revolution.
		At about the time of baby Jane’s arrival, Thomas and his son began to build a villa in Germantown, something well-to-do Philadelphians sometimes did in their quest for summer housing away from the bustle and deadly summer epidemics of the city.
		Even in his accounts, it is clear that Thomas doted on the girls, buying them all sorts of treats, bonnets, ribbons, dresses, musical instruments, and books.
	www.moravian.edu /news/magazine/winter02/memento1.htm (564 words)

	Library Associates Newletter February 1989
		An important addition to the Library's collection of motion picture archives are the surviving papers of Thoms Armat (1866-1948), inventor of the motion picture projector, the gift of his daughter-in-law, Mrs.
		Christopher Brooke Armat of Washington, D.C. Of particular interest is a letter from Thomas Edison, dated May 25, 1922, in which he discusses their early partnership: ".
		The Armat Papers are a perfect complement to the archives of motion picture historian, Terry Ramsaye, reported on in Newsletter 23.
	www.library.georgetown.edu /advancement/newsletter/24/arnat24.htm (144 words)

	thomas edison patent application (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thomas A. Edison's Patent Application American Originals the an exhibit changing selected landmark documents from is National Archives that Records based and of on a Administration exhibition -
		The of Edison Thomas Education - Thomas Edison plunged into great patent he he was 12, - for Before filed a 1877, ("sound books.
		Thomas Edison Alva is however, so Edison acquired a projector Thomas application the Armat and introduced - by execution date of a patent - He the date on which developed -
	www.patentgoldpages.com /thomas-edison-patent-application.htm (811 words)

	Thomas Armat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thomas J. Armat (1866 - de septiembre el 30 de 1948) era mecánico e inventor americanos, pionero del cine conocido lo más mejor posible con la co-invencio'n del Edison Vitascope.
		Armat estudió en los mecánicos Instuitute en Richmond, Virginia y entonces en 1894 en la escuela de la dicha de la electricidad en Washington, C.C., en donde él satisfizo a Charles Francis Jenkins.
		En 1947, Armat y Guillermo N. Selig, Albert Edward Smith y George K. Spoor fueron concedidos una concesión especial de la academia como representantes de los pioneros de la película para sus contribuciones al negocio de la película.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/th/Thomas%20Armat.htm (367 words)

	Today in Technology History - Mar 26
		Jenkins and a collaborator, Thomas Armat, made improvements to the Phantoscope.
		Armat approached various companies, and in 1896 a company owned by Thomas Edison began to manufacture the movie projector under the name "Vitascope."
		Of course, the projector would have been impossible were it not for the innovations in film technology which came out of the Eastman company in Rochester, New York.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2002/mar26.htm (343 words)

	Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
		Armat worked as a clerk in a hardware store for three years until he was eighteen, was then apprenticed to a railway machine shop but soon left to become a book-keeper for the railroad's treasurer's office.
		Following their shows at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition, which were financed by Armat (who made a loss), the partners began to argue.
		Armat continued to work on the Vitascope throughout 1896 and defended himself against not only Jenkins but, into the early years of the new century, many others whom he considered were infringing his patents, and threatened and fought various litigations against Biograph, Edison and others before eventually becoming part of the Motion Picture Patents Company.
	www.victorian-cinema.net /armat.htm (319 words)

	19th century: Thomas Edison
		Early years Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan.
		Menlo Park The greatest invention of Thomas Edison was the Menlo Park research lab, which was built in New Jersey.
		Personal life He was married twice, the first time in 1871 to Mary Stilwell (1855-1884), with whom he had three children - Marion Estelle, Thomas Jr., and William Leslie - before she died at age 29, probably of typhoid fever.
	www.historyfocal.com /19th_century/Thomas_Alva_Edison.shtml (1766 words)

	EarlyCinema.com
		In March of 1895, Charles Francis Jenkins, a young government clerk in Washington entered into an agreement with Thomas Armat, a fellow student a the Bliss School of Electricity.
		At the same time, Armat, upon perfecting his version, approached prominent entrepreneurs Raff and Gammon who were excited by what they saw and approached Edison with the intention that he develop the machine.
		Edison agreed and in February 1896 the Armat projecting Phantoscope was renamed the Vitascope and was preceded by 'Edison’s' for, as Raff and Gammon explained, effective publicity and exploitation of the device.
	www.earlycinema.com /technology/vitascope.html (303 words)

	Learn more about Thomas Edison in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Learn more about Thomas Edison in the online encyclopedia.
		Let alone the entire millennium with true giants such as Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilei, Charles Darwin, Johannes Gutenberg (book print, #1 invention of the millennium, according to many sources), James Watt (steam engine and start of industrial revolution, #2 invention), and many others.
		The greatest innovation of Thomas Edison was the Menlo Park research lab, which was built in New Jersey.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/th/thomas_edison.html (2276 words)

	Projecting Moving Images (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By 1895, inventors in Europe and the United States had designed several projectors that enlarged film images for viewing by large groups: the Cinematographe, invented in France by Auguste and Louis Lumiere; the Phantoscope of Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat, of Washington, DC; and the Woodville Latham family's Eidoloscope.
		The Phantascope was designed jointly by C. Frances Jenkins and Armat, and shown at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, Ga. in October 1895.
		Armat sold his rights to Edison, who claimed its invention.
	www.hrw.com /si/social/si_1865/si_cinema/projecting.html (186 words)

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