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Edward Ball

The Inventor and the Tycoon

The Murderer Eadweard Muybridge, the Entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the Birth of Moving Pictures

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A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book of the YearNearly 140 years ago, in frontier California, photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured time with his camera and played it back on a flickering screen, inventing the breakthrough technology of moving pictures. Yet the visionary inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial became a national sensation. Despite Muybridge's crime, the artist's patron, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University, hired the photographer to answer the question of whether the four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground all at once-and together these two… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7679-2940-0
  • EAN: 9780767929400
  • Produktnummer: 14909924
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 464 S.

Über den Autor


Edward Ball is the author of several books of history and biography, including the bestselling National Book Award-winning Slaves in the Family. Born and raised in the South, he lives in Connecticut and teaches at Yale University.

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