The inventor and the tycoon : a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures / Edward Ball.

  • Ball, Edward, 1958-
Date:
[2013], ©2013
  • Books

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Description

The story of Eadweard Muybridge, inventor of stop-motion photography and moving pictures--who was also a murderer--and his relationship with Leland Stanford, the wealthy railroad baron and founder of Stanford University.

Publication/Creation

New York ; London : Doubleday, [2013], ©2013.

Physical description

xiv, 447 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Contributors

Edition

1st ed.

Notes

Copy 1, donated by the author.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-426) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Muybridge)
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780385525756
  • 0385525753