The "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope" was patented in 1867 by William Lincoln. This predates Muybridge's Galloping Horse (1878) by 11 years? http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm Regards, Bob... -------------------------------------------- "Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?" -Martin Luther From: "Robert G. Earnest" <rge@earnestphoto.com> > Achal Pashine wrote: > > > > Who is Muybridge > > The correct answer is "Eadweard Muybridge" > > Show Achal what he has won, Johnny!!!" > > San Francisco photographer, Eadweard Muybridge conducted motion-sequence > still photographic experiments and is called the "Father of the motion > picture" even though he did not make films in the manner we know them as > today. Eadweard Muybridge developed a fast camera shutter and used other > state-of-the-art techniques of his day to make the first photographs > that show sequences of movement. In Muybridge's most famous motion > studies, a row of cameras snapped a dozen or more photographs of a > passing horse; the public was astonished to see proof that a trotting > horse can simultaneously have all four hooves off the ground. For this > experiment Muybridge devised a fast camera shutter and used a new, more > sensitive photographic process, both of which dramatically reduced > exposure time and produced crisp images of moving objects. > > From: > http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm
