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7. Eadweard Muybridge 1878
Muybridge was an Englishman who came to California during the westward movement in the US. The story has it that he had a bet going with Leland Stanford that when a horse ran at full gallop it had all four legs off the ground. To prove his point, he set up a series of cameras with a trip wire that triggered the shutter as the horse ran around a racetrack. He proved his point, but the real winner here was the motion picture industry in California. Still images, when put together sequentially, are the basis of creating moving pictures.
