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 1878, Muybridge made a famous 13-part 360 ° photographic panorama of San Francisco, to be presented to the wife of Leland Stanford.

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

Stanford sought out Muybridge and hired him to settle the question.

By 1878, spurred on by Stanford to expand the experiments, Muybridge had successfully photographed a horse at a trot ; lantern slides have survived of this later work.

The historian Phillip Prodger later suggested that Stanford considered Muybridge as just one of his employees, and not deserving of special recognition.

Muybridge filed a lawsuit against Stanford to gain credit, but it was dismissed out of court.

In 1872 Stanford commissioned the photographer Eadweard Muybridge to undertake scientific studies of the gaits of horses at a trot and gallop at his Palo Alto Stock Farm.

* 1878-Railroad tycoon Leland Stanford hired British photographer Eadweard Muybridge to settle a bet on whether a galloping horse ever had all four of its feet off the ground.

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.

In his earlier years in San Francisco, Muybridge had become known for his landscape photography, particularly of the Yosemite Valley.

Muybridge was born in Kingston upon Thames, England on 9 April 1830 to John and Susan Muggeridge ; he had three brothers.

Muybridge later stated that he had changed his vocation at the suggestion of his physician.

Muybridge had left San Francisco in 1860 as a merchant, but returned in 1867 as a professional photographer, with highly proficient technical skills and an artist's eye.

His defence attorney pleaded insanity due to the severe head injury which Muybridge had suffered in the 1860 stagecoach accident.

She had placed their son Florado Helios Muybridge ( nicknamed " Floddie " by friends ) with a French couple.

When Muybridge returned, he had the boy moved from a Catholic orphanage to a Protestant one, but otherwise had little to do with him.

However, as a result of Muybridge not being credited in the book, the Royal Society of Arts withdrew an offer to fund his stop-motion studies in photography, and refused to publish a paper he had submitted, accusing him of plagiarism.

As Muybridge explained, in some of his published sequences he had substituted images where original exposures had failed, in order to illustrate a representative movement ( rather than producing a strictly scientific recording of a particular sequence ).

In effect, however, Muybridge had achieved the aesthetic opposite to modern bullet-time sequences, since his studies lacked the dimensionality of the later developments.

The English photographer Eadweard Muybridge carried out his " Photographic Investigation " in Palo Alto, California, to prove that Marey was right when he wrote that a galloping horse for a brief moment had all four hooves off the ground.

Stillman used Muybridge's photos as the basis for his 100 illustrations, and the photographer's research for the analysis, but he gave Muybridge no prominent credit.

At the Chicago 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Muybridge gave a series of lectures on the Science of Animal Locomotion in the Zoopraxographical Hall, built specially for that purpose in the " Midway Plaisance " arm of the exposition.

Eadweard Muybridge gave a series of lectures on the Science of Animal Locomotion in the Zoopraxographical Hall, built specially for that purpose on Midway Plaisance.

In spite of early attempts to classify gaits based on footprints or the sound of footfalls, it wasn't until Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey began taking rapid series of photographs that proper scientific examination of gaits could begin.

Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-action photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography.

While travelling on a photography expedition in the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America in 1875, the photographer advertised his works under the name " Eduardo Santiago Muybridge " in Guatemala.

In central Texas, Muybridge suffered severe head injuries in a violent runaway stagecoach crash which injured every passenger on board, and killed one of them.

Muybridge was bodily ejected from the destroyed vehicle, and hit his head on a rock or other hard object.

Muybridge planned to take a series of photos on 15 June 1878 at Stanford's Palo Alto Stock Farm.

Shortly after his acquittal in 1875, Muybridge left the United States on a previously planned 9-month photography trip to Central America, as a " working exile ".

Eakins later favoured the use of multiple exposures on a single photographic negative to study motion more precisely, while Muybridge continued to use multiple cameras to produce separate images which could also be projected by his zoopraxiscope.

At the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Muybridge presented a series of lectures on the " Science of Animal Locomotion " in the Zoopraxographical Hall, built specially for that purpose in the " Midway Plaisance " arm of the exposition.

Muybridge later claimed that on this occasion, six years before the first commercial motion picture exhibition, he proposed a scheme for sound cinema that would combine his image-casting zoopraxiscope with Edison's recorded-sound technology.

Muybridge went on a lecture tour showing his photographs on a moving-image device he called the zoopraxiscope.

* 1891-Designed around the work of Muybridge, Marey, and Eastman, Thomas Edison's employee, William K. L. Dickson finishes work on a motion-picture camera, called the Kinetograph, and a viewing machine, called the Kinetoscope.

) Muybridge later assembled the pictures into a rudimentary animation, by placing them on a glass disk which he spun in front of a light source.

His entry was based on the work Laundromat Locomotion, in which he converted a row of 12 washing machines in a laundromat into a series of cameras triggered by trip wires, and then rode a horse through the laundromat to recreate Eadweard Muybridge ’ s The Horse in Motion ( 1878 ).

He left behind him two unmade screenplays: Justified Sinner, an adaptation of James Hogg ’ s celebrated novel, and Flying Horse, based on the life of pre-cinema pioneer Eadweard Muybridge.

The lavish style of scientific illustration was followed in work on animal locomotion ( co-ordinated movement ) by Eadweard Muybridge ( 1830 – 1904 ) and James Bell Pettigrew ( 1832 – 1908 ); and-to a lesser extent-in D ' Arcy Thompson's masterpiece of mathematical biology On Growth and Form ( 1917 ).

In the late 1870s he was introduced to the photographic motion studies of Eadweard Muybridge, particularly the equine studies, and became interested in using the camera to study sequential movement.