Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) was a British-American photographer and pioneer of motion-picture science. Born Edward Muggeridge in Kingston upon Thames, he is best known for his sequential photographic studies of human and animal locomotion, which he conducted at Stanford University in the 1870s using a battery of cameras with trip-wire shutters, and for his invention of the zoopraxiscope, a device that projected sequences of his still images to create the illusion of movement — a key precursor to the cinematograph. His acclaimed image-sequences include The Horse in Motion, Animal Locomotion, and his own demonstrations of zoopraxiscope projection.