His kinetoscope provided a way of looking at them.

他的活动电影放映机提供了看它们的方式。

It's only fitting that people got their first glimpses of motion pictures here in 1894 with a contraption called the kinetoscope.

1894 年，人们在这里第次看到电影是很恰当的，这是叫做活动电影放映机的装置。

This short film, known as Fred Ott’s Sneeze, was recorded in 1894 to test a new moving picture machine called the Kinetoscope.

这名为弗雷德·奥特的喷嚏的短片于 1894 年录制，用于测试名为活动电影放映机的新型电影机器。

Edison was more interested in the sale of Kinetoscopes (for roughly $1,000 apiece) to these parlors than in the films that would be run in them (which cost approximately $10 to $15 each).

生更感兴趣于活动电影放映机（每台大约1000美元）的销售量而不是将要在其中播放的胶片（每个大约花费10到15美元）。

Tom was interested in moving pictures. In October 1888 he had written, " I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear. . . . This apparatus I call a Kinetoscope— 'Moving View.'"

汤姆对电影很感兴趣。 1888 年 10 月，他写道：“我正在对仪器进行实验，它对眼睛的作用就像留声机对耳朵的作用… … 我称这设备为活动电影放映机——‘移动视角’。”