On June 19, 1872, under the sponsorship of Leland Stanford, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed a horse named " Sallie Gardner " in fast motion using a series of 24 stereoscopic cameras.

In 1872, the former governor of California Leland Stanford, a businessman and race-horse owner, hired Muybridge for some photographic studies.

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First established in 1872, the college awarded its first Ph. D. in 1885 to John Stillman, who later founded the Chemistry Department at Stanford University.

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

In 1872, Leland Stanford, former governor of California and horse enthusiast, hired Eadweard Muybridge to provide photographic proof that a galloping horse had all four hooves off the ground.

Between 1871 to 1872, the Stanford family embarked on an ambitious remodeling of the residence.

In 1872, the town of Jamestown commissioned a steam powered ferryboat.

* was an commissioned in 1872 that served in the Atlantic and Asiatic Squadrons, scrapped in 1914.

MacDonald was educated at Uppingham School and Sandhurst, and was a soldier-diplomat, commissioned into the 74th Foot in 1872.

On his return to England in 1872, he commissioned architect Basil Champneys to design a new family home in Branch Hill, Hampstead, which was named " Oak Tree House "-in 1888, William Gladstone himself was a visitor.

The memorial that he commissioned for himself and his family c. 1872 is Grade II listed.

Thornton was commissioned captain on 24 May 1872.

In 1872, his remains were repatriated by order of President Antonio Guzmán Blanco, being commissioned by his relative Blas Bruzual.

The building of the new church, Holy Trinity Parish Church, was commissioned in 1872 by William Thomas Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam to the design of John Loughborough Pearson, an exponent of the Gothic Revival style, and consecrated in 1877 by the Archbishop of York.

Born November 22, 1872, in Nashville, Tennessee, graduated fourth in the United States Military Academy ( West Point ) class of 1898 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers.

In 1872 Jean-Baptiste Lamy, the Bishop of the Santa Fe Archdiocese, commissioned the building of a convent chapel to be named Our Lady of Light Chapel, which would be in the care of the Sisters of Loretto.

William Bell ( photographer ) | William Bell's photograph of the Grand Canyon, taken in 1872 as part of the Wheeler Survey | Wheeler expedition

Baldy viewed from Beaver, photographed by William Bell ( photographer ) | William Bell during the 1872 Wheeler Survey

* James Chapman ( explorer ) ( 1831 – 1872 ), South African explorer, hunter, trader and photographer

In 1872, Wesley Powell and a group of adventurers returned ; their photographer, James Fennesmore, became ill and was cured by Emma Lee.

In December 1872, Darwin corresponded briefly with the mathematician and photographer Charles Dodgson ( Lewis Carroll ) ( 1832 – 1898 ), author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( 1865 )-illustrated by Sir John Tenniel ( 1820 – 1914 )-and Dodgson sent Darwin a photograph of " an emotional expression " ( portrait of Flora Rankin ).

Beaman left the group in January 1872 over a dispute with Powell and his replacement, James Fennemore, quit August that same year due to poor health, leaving boatman John K. Hillers as the official photographer ( nearly one ton of photographic equipment was needed on site to process each shot ).

That same year 1872 Herbert sat for his first posed theatrical photographic portrait by noted photographer Oliver Sarony, an older brother of the better remembered Napoleon Sarony.

Eadweard Muybridge was the first to prove, by photography, in 1872 that there is a " moment of suspension " or " unsupported transit " during the trot gait.

Accurate restoration of the home and its rooms was aided by both an extensive study of the home in 1986 through the Historic American Buildings Survey, and through a large collection of photographs of the home taken in 1868 by Alfred A. Hart, and again in 1872 by Eadweard Muybridge.

During the construction of the San Francisco Mint in 1870 – 1872, Muybridge made a sequence of images of the building's progress, using the power of time-lapse photography to document changes over time.

In 1872, Muybridge settled Stanford's question with a single photographic negative showing his Standardbred trotting horse Occident airborne at the trot.

In 1872, Muybridge married Flora Shallcross Stone, a divorcee 21 years old, and half his age.

Darwin did not use the term in Origin of Species until its sixth edition in 1872, ( though earlier editions did use the word " evolved ") by which time Herbert Spencer had given it scientific currency with a broad definition of progression in complexity in 1862.

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

The first major scientific expedition to the area was led by U. S. Army Major John Wesley Powell in 1872.

The Challenger expedition of 1872 – 76 was a scientific exercise that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography.

Prompted by the Scot, Charles Wyville Thomson — of the University of Edinburgh and Merchiston Castle School — the Royal Society of London obtained the use of Challenger from the Royal Navy and in 1872 modified the ship for scientific work, equipping her with separate laboratories for natural history and chemistry.

This process, also known as the measured drop, was introduced to Britain in 1872 by William Marwood as a scientific advance on the standard drop.

This branch of study naturally conducted him to the investigation of explosives, and on the theoretical side led to the results published in his work Sur la force de la poudre et des matières explosives ( 1872 ), while in practical terms it enabled him to render important services to his country as president of the scientific defence committee during the siege of Paris ( 1870 – 1871 ) and subsequently as chief of the French explosives committee.

He contributed memoirs to scientific societies, and edited the Ibis ( 1865 – 1870 ), the Zoological Record ( 1870 – 1872 ), and Yarrell's British Birds ( 1871 – 1882 ).

The first lasted from 1861 to 1872, emphasized the adoption of Western firearms, machines, scientific knowledge and training of technical and diplomatic personnel through the establishment of a diplomatic office and a college.

* December 26-Mary Somerville, British scientific writer ( died 1872 ).

For example, in the list he made in 1872, he intended to make a " political novel ", a " novel about the defeat ", " a scientific novel " and a " novel about the war in Italy ".

Cleveland Abbe founded the scientific journal Monthly Weather Review in 1872.

In 1872 he went on a scientific mission to Upper Egypt, where he studied the monuments and inscriptions.

Popular Science Monthly was founded in May 1872 by Edward L. Youmans to disseminate scientific knowledge to the educated layman.

Popular Science Monthly was founded in 1872 and published as a scientific journal until September 1915.

Popular Science Monthly was founded in 1872 and published as a scientific journal until September 1915.

In addition to his scholarly papers published in scientific journals, he made contributions to Salomon Stricker's ( 1834 – 1898 ) Handbuch der Lehre von den Geweben des Menschen und der Thiere ( 1872 ) and to Ludimar Hermann's ( 1838 – 1914 ) Handbuch der Physiologie ( 1879 ).

As a ship's doctor on the New York Line 1872 / 73 he examined seasickness – his works were classified by Prof. Gavingel of Le Havre as the first scientific study on this topic at all.

In 1862 he became the curator of the entomological department of the Zoological Museum and in 1864 became a lecturer in entomology as well. An 1872 scholarship enabled him to travel to the continent for scientific study.

As early as January 1865 Sheffield FC was associated with scoring a goal through " scientific movements " against Nottingham A contemporary match report of November 1865 notes " We cannot help recording the really scientific play with which the Sheffield men backed each other up " Combination play by Sheffield players is also suggest in 1868: " a remarkably neat and quick piece of play on the part of K Smith, Denton and J Knowles resulted in a goal for Sheffield, the final kick being given by J. Knowles " Contemporary proof of passing occurs from at least January 1872.