Since motion pictures were invented ... The photos were taken by an English photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, to settle a bet between California businessman Leland Stanford and his colleagues.

On June 15, 1878, members of the San Francisco press gathered at a racetrack in Palo Alto, California, to witness a historic event. Eadweard Muybridge, an eccentric Englishman and photographer who ...

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 ...

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 ...