<trivia> Muybridge was born Edward Muggeridge. He later changed his name to Muybridge. The horse photography was evidently to settle a bet with Leland Stanford (of Stanford University fame.)
Among his achievements, other than those Tom mentioned, is that he took several panoramic photographs of San Francisco in the late 1870s using thirteen cameras at a time. </trivia> Cheers, Gautam On 4/11/06, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday, April 9 it was "the birthday of Eadweard Muybridge, born in > Kingston-on-the-Thames, England (1830). He emigrated to California in the > 1850s, where he took up photography and quickly became one of the first > internationally known photographers. Between 1867 and 1872 he took more than > 2000 photographs, many of them views of the Yosemite Valley. > > It was Eadweard Muybridge who designed a new camera that could take a > picture in one-thousandth of a second. To test his improvement, he set up > twenty-four cameras along a race track with trip wires to pull the shutters. > With those cameras, he managed to take a series of pictures of a horse > galloping, proving for the first time that all four of a horse's hooves will > sometimes be off the ground at the same time". > > >From "The Writer's Almanac". > > Tom C. > > > Tom C. > > >
