Eadweard J. Muybridge

1 He changed his name more than his facial hair,His full real name was Edward James Muggeridge. 
2 He was acquitted for the Murder of his wife’s lover. 
3 He created two panoramas of San Francisco, one seventeen foot long. 
4 Francis Bacon owned four copies of Humans in Motion. 
5 Muybridge also documented a Baboon in motion. 
6 He was born on April 9, 1830 in Kingston upon Thames, England. 
7 He is known for his pioneering work on animal movement which used multiple cameras to capture motion. 
8 He died on April 8, 1904 in Kingston upon Thames. 
9 He was a photographer. 
10 He made the Zoopraxiscope which showed motion.


Edward James Muggeridge was born on April 9, 1830 in Kingston upon Thames, England and He emigrated to the US, arriving in San Francisco in 1855, where he started a career as a publisher's agent and bookseller. He left San Francisco at the end of the 1850s, and after a stagecoach accident in which he received severe head injuries, returned to England for a few year and took up photography.


He reappeared in San Francisco in 1866 and rapidly became successful in photography, focusing principally on landscape and architectural subjects, He grew in the photography industry as one of the best and In 1872, former Governor of California Leland Stanford, a businessman and race-horse owner, had taken a position on a popularly-debated question of the day: whether all four of a horse's hooves are off the ground at the same time during the trot. Up until this time, most paintings of horses at full gallop showed the front legs extended forward and the hind legs extended to the rear. Stanford sided with this assertion, called "unsupported transit", and took it upon himself to prove it scientifically. Stanford sought out Muybridge and hired him to settle the question.


In later studies Muybridge used a series of large cameras that used glass plates placed in a line, each one being triggered by a thread as the horse passed. Later a clockwork device was used. The images were copied in the form of silhouettes onto a disc and viewed in a machine called a Zoopraxiscope. This in fact became an intermediate stage towards motion pictures or cinematography, one of the earliest forms of videography. And he killed his wife's lover but he was freed because he had mental problems. He on April 8, 1904 in Kingston upon Thames.