Inventor and the Tycoon : The Murderer Eadweard Muybridge, the Entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the Birth of Moving Pictures

from gbelik

This joint biography of Leland Stanford, the California railroad tycoon and Eadweard Muybridge, the early photographer, pulled together two stories that did join at an important point (the early photographs that show a horse with all of its feet off of the ground as it runs-created by Muybridge a...

from lissabeth21

The strange and innumerable circumstances that bring two disparate people into each others' lives at just the right time are miraculous; and yet we can find evidence of these types of meetings throughout history. This story brings together two such men during a time of technological explosion and...

from ursula

We are promised "a gilded age murder and the birth of moving pictures" by the cover. The murderer and the person responsible for the moving pictures is Eadweard Muybridge, a somewhat kooky and interesting character who reinvented himself several times. So you may be wondering who the tycoon of th...

from marshapetry

Excellent narrator (audio book). I liked the book but it simply wasn't that good. The time period jumped around so much that sometimes I wasn't sure if the author was telling the histories backwards (much like the move "Memento"). There was some connection between the two men Muggeridge and Stanf...

from melydia

More or less the story of the strange relationship between railroad magnate Leland Stanford and solitary photographer Eadweard Muybridge. I thought I'd like it - the time period and subject matter are right up my alley - but honestly, this book is kind of a mess. Not only is it not told in chrono...