SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, May 20, 1893  

* Inventor Thomas A. Edison demonstration
* W.K.L. Dickson's Kinetograph and Kinetoscope

The top of an inside page has a very historic article headed: "First Public Exhibition of Edison's Kinetograph" which was essentially the beginning of the motion picture industry.
The article takes over a full column & a portion includes: "...the duration of each image is one-ninety-second of a second, and the entire strip passes through the instrument in about thirty seconds. In the kinetograph each image dwells upon the retina until it is replaced by the succeeding one & the difference between any picture & the succeeding one or preceding one is so slight as to render it impossible to observe the intermittent character of the picture..." & much more.
Sixteen pages, never bound nor trimmed, very nice condition.

Background: Published on May 20, 1893, this historic article in Scientific American documents the monumental birth of the global motion picture industry by reporting on the first public demonstration of Thomas Edison and W.K.L. Dickson's Kinetograph and Kinetoscope, which took place just days earlier on May 9 at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. The immense significance of this event lies in its introduction of a functional, standardized system for capturing and viewing photographic motion, effectively bridging the gap between static photography and true cinema through pioneering technical specifications. By detailing how a continuous celluloid film strip flashed individual frames before the eye at high speeds—allowing each micro-image to dwell upon the retina via the optical illusion of persistence of vision—the publication provided the public with its very first mechanical blueprint of moving images, cementing this specific issue as a foundational print artifact of modern mass media and entertainment history.