MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD


Meaning of MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD in English

orig. Edward James Muggeridge

born April 9, 1830, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, Eng.

died May 8, 1904, Kingston upon Thames

English photographer.

He immigrated to the U.S. from England as a young man, and in 1868 his photos of Yosemite Valley made him famous. Hired by Leland Stanford to photograph a trotting horse in motion, to test Stanford's contention that it lifted all four legs simultaneously, he developed a special fast shutter for his battery of 12 to 24 cameras, and in 1877 he proved Stanford right. He lectured widely on animal locomotion, illustrating his lectures with his zoopraxiscope, a predecessor of the movie projector. His extensive photographic studies of human movement (1884–87) have been useful to artists and scientists.

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia.      Краткая энциклопедия Британика.