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Eadward Muybridge (1830 - 1904)
 Born
as Eadweard James Muggeridge in Kingston-on-Thames, England. Pioneer photographer
of motion, and with his zoöpraxiscope of 1879, with which figures in motion
could be projected on a screen, he foreshadowed the later invention of motion
pictures. While a photographer in the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey of the Pacific
Coast, in 1872, Leland Stanford asked him
if a running horse ever has all four of his feet off the ground at one time. Muybridge
worked for six years at Stanford's stud farm and secured a series of photographs
which proved that at certain times all four feet are off the ground. These results
were published in The Horse in Motion in 1878. In 1884 Muybridge began a new series of experiments under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania. At that time he perfected a timing mechanism and an electro-magnetic latch to release the camera shutters, the results of which work were published in eleven volumes with 100,000 photographs in Animal Locomotion: An Electrophotographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements, 1872-1885. |
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