Eadweard Muybridge: The Inventor
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Updated: 8 Nov 2018
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Edward James Muggeridge is bornEmigrates to USASettles in San Franciso, changes name to Muygridge then MuybridgeStagecoach accident on return to England. Learns photography during his recovery.Returns to San Francisco, sets up as a photographerSpends months in Yosemite Park, photographingInvents 'skyshade' deviceAcquitted of murder, travels to South AmericaMarries Flora Shallcross StoneHired by Sanford to prove 'unsupported transit'Shoots Harry Larkyns deadFirst serial photographs of horses in motion at Stanford's Palo Alto farmMore serial photographs taken at Palo Alto, including of athletesZoogyroscope (later zoopraxiscope) used in public lectures'Attitudes of Animals in Motion' publishedChanges name to EadweardBegins sequence photographySequence photography is finished and 'Animal Locomotion' is publishedVisits Thomas Edison to discuss joining zoopraxiscope with the phonographDescriptive Zoopraxography published'Animals in Motion' publishedDies 14th of March, 1904 in KingstonReturns to England for the last time
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