Is the Writer's Almanac like Wikipedia? I ask only because the place he was
born is actually 'Kingston-Upon-Thames': my father was born there too,
although he has no other claim to fame!
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
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From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:29 AM
Subject: OT: Eadweard Muybridge
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.
