repr. Gr. κῑνητο-, comb. form of κῑνητός movable, used in several terms of recent origin, as Kinetogenesis, the (theoretical) origination of animal structures in animal movements. Kinetograph, an apparatus for photographing a scene of action in every stage of its progress; hence Kinetographic a. Kinetophonograph, a kinetograph with mechanism for recording sounds. Kinetoscope, (a) ‘a sort of movable panorama’ (Webster, 1864); (b) an apparatus for reproducing the scenes recorded by the kinetograph; (c) an instrument by which arcs of different radii are combined in the production of curves (Knight, Dict. Mech., 1875); hence Kinetoscopic a. Kinetoskotoscope [Gr. σκότος darkness: see -SCOPE] (see quot.).
1884. E. D. Cope, Orig. Fittest (1887), 423. The ‘law of use and effort’ … that animal structures have been produced, directly or indirectly, by animal movements, or the doctrine of *kinetogenesis.
1893. Osborne, in Williams, Geol. Biology (1895), 324. The changes en route [in the Mammalia] lead us to believe either in predestination … or in kinetogenesis.
1891. Times, 29 May, 5/1. Mr. Edison said:—‘The *kinetograph is a machine combining electricity with photography.’
1894. Dickson, Life Edison, 316. The dramatis personæ of the *kinetographic stage. Ibid., 303. The comprehensive term for this invention is the *kineto-phonograph. Ibid. The kinetograph and the *kinetoscope … relate respectively to the taking and reproduction of movable but soundless objects. Ibid., 311. A popular and inexpensive adaptation of *kinetoscopic methods.
1896. Westm. Gaz., 18 March, 2/1. The *kinetoskotoscope…. By means of this barbarously termed piece of apparatus it is possible, so we are told, to see the motions of the bones of the finger when bent backwards and forwards.
