The inventor and the tycoon : a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures

Summary: From the National Book Award-winning author of "Slaves in the Family", a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads. 130 years ago, Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, making possible motion pictures. He was also a murderer. His patron was railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, whose obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once, and Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. For fans of Simon Winchester's "The Professor and the Madman."

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