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Sometimes I'm just awed by what you can find on the internet. This is a perfect example:
On June 15, 1878, a clear and sunny day in Palo Alto, California, amid a gathering of art and sports journalists, Eadweard Muybridge photographed the first successful serial images of fast motion.
The subject of these photographs was the trotting horse, Abe Edgington, harnessed to a sulky. The horse was owned by railroad builder and former governor, Leland Stanford. Proven was Stanford's theory that during a horse's running stride, there is a moment of suspension where no hooves are touching the ground.
What had begun as a topic of unresolvable debate among artists and horse enthusiasts now launched a new era in photography.
Take some time to look through the index and galleries too, and enjoy the history replaying before your eyes.
Link thanks to Fleshbot (not work safe).
Posted by Ted at December 19, 2003 09:06 AM