The camera was developed at the height of his career; sometimes called Kinetoscope, an early cinematographic device from the Greek word Kinesis (CITE). In 1888, Thomas Edison began work on the Kinetoscope. Using income from his technological inventions, Thomas Edison built the largest and most advanced laboratory of the time in West Orange, New Jersey. Edison and his team of scientists and skilled craftsmen began work on the kinetoscope. During the production of the Kinetoscope, Edison attended a conference in Orange, New Jersey with photographer Edward Muybridge to discuss photographs of moving animals. Edison then invited Mr. Muybridge to his laboratory where Thomas Edison learned to create the illusion of still life photos.