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Eadweard Muybridge: The Inventor
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Lexi Shamsi
⟶ Updated 8 Nov 2018 ⟶
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Edward James Muggeridge is born
Emigrates to USA
Settles in San Franciso, changes name to Muygridge then Muybridge
Stagecoach accident on return to England. Learns photography during his recovery.
Returns to San Francisco, sets up as a photographer
Spends months in Yosemite Park, photographing
Invents 'skyshade' device
Acquitted of murder, travels to South America
Marries Flora Shallcross Stone
Hired by Sanford to prove 'unsupported transit'
Shoots Harry Larkyns dead
First serial photographs of horses in motion at Stanford's Palo Alto farm
More serial photographs taken at Palo Alto, including of athletes
Zoogyroscope (later zoopraxiscope) used in public lectures
'Attitudes of Animals in Motion' published
Changes name to Eadweard
Begins sequence photography
Sequence photography is finished and 'Animal Locomotion' is published
Visits Thomas Edison to discuss joining zoopraxiscope with the phonograph
Descriptive Zoopraxography published
'Animals in Motion' published
Dies 14th of March, 1904 in Kingston
Returns to England for the last time
