The work, which eventually ran to over 100,000 images, was carried out as research for the University of Pennsylvania between 1884 and 1887 and documents a series of human and animal subjects, each ...

The photos were taken by an English photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, to settle a bet between California businessman Leland Stanford and his colleagues. Stanford contended that at some point in a ...

Eadweard Muybridge, an eccentric Englishman and photographer who not long before had murdered his wife's lover, claimed to be able to photograph a horse running at full speed—a feat considered ...

Eadweard Muybridge used a series of cameras to take multiple exposures of animals and people in motion. The resulting photographs capture his subjects’ changing positions in sharp focus and ...

Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Eadweard Muybridge and Auguste and Louis Lumiere. Eadweard Muybridge was tasked with finding out whether ...