Muybridge
Americannoun
noun
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The clarifying photos would go on to generate something even more exciting for the photographer, Eadweard Muybridge.
From Slate • May 25, 2026
The most famous experiment was made in 1878 by English photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who photographed running horses and replayed the images on a machine he called the Zoopraxiscope.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
One of the first scenes alludes to one of the first moving images in film history — a man riding on a horse, captured by 19th century inventor Eadweard Muybridge.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2022
He invokes what is thought to be the very first moving image, captured by the 19th-century inventor and adventurer Eadweard Muybridge, of a man on horseback.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022
The principle of the instrument was suggested to Edison by the zoetrope, and of course, he well knew what Muybridge had accomplished in the line of motion pictures of animals almost ten years previously.
From Marvels of Modern Science by Severing, Paul
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