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[LB058666], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Eadweard Muybridge, University of Pennsylvania, February 21st, 1894
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Feb [21,?] 1894 
Eadwaard Muybridge, Esq., 
University of Pennsylvania, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Dear Sir:-- 
I have received your little book on Zoopraxography, for which please accept my thanks. 
I have constructed a little instrument which I call a Kinetograph, with a nickel-in-slot attachment. Some twenty-five of these have been made, but I am very doubtful if there is any commercial feature in it. I fear that they will not earn their cost. These zeotropic devices are of too sentimental a character for the public to invest in. 
Yours very truly, 
Thomas A. Edison 
M.

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