But did Muybridge actually develop the projector? He certainly developed the recording technique, but the method to project the images on a screen or a wall? Well, projectors had been around for a long time (magic lanterns) and there were moving pictures in them long before the advent of cinema (or even photography). This whole question/answer thing really undelines how rarely anyone actually invents anything (in isolation). Inspiration occurs against a background of ideas that have gone before. The bloke history remembers gets all the credit. Bill gates invented the digits 0 and 1. Fortunately that was before he invented the idea of copyrighting inventions (as opposed to patenting them). My question: who first used polarisers as a means to navigation at sea (excluding bees).
