Timeline

The life and career of Eadweard Muybridge, 1830–1904

1830

Born Edward James Muggeridge on April 9 in Kingston upon Thames, England

1850

Emigrates to the United States around this time, working as a bookseller in New York and San Francisco

1860

Suffers serious head injuries in a stagecoach crash in Texas and returns to England to recuperate

1867

Makes his first photographic expedition to the Yosemite Valley, working under the name "Helios"

1872

Returns to photograph Yosemite with mammoth-plate cameras; begins motion experiments for Leland Stanford

1874

Shoots and kills Major Harry Larkyns, his wife's lover, on October 17

1875

Acquitted of murder in February on the grounds of justifiable homicide

1878

Photographs "Sallie Gardner" galloping on June 19, proving a horse becomes fully airborne; makes his San Francisco panorama

1879

Invents the zoopraxiscope, projecting sequences to simulate movement

1883

Begins his extensive motion studies at the University of Pennsylvania

1887

Publishes Animal Locomotion, 781 collotype plates of humans and animals in motion

1893

Lectures at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in his Zoopraxographical Hall

1899

Publishes the popular book Animals in Motion

1901

Publishes The Human Figure in Motion

1904

Dies on May 8 in Kingston upon Thames, England

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