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The inventor and the tycoon : a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures
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Title
The inventor and the tycoon : a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures / Edward Ball.
ISBN
9780385525756 (hbk.)
0385525753 (hbk.)
9780385535496 (ebk.)
038553549X (ebk.)
9780767929400 (pbk.)
0767929403 (pbk.)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Doubleday, c2013.
Physical Description
xiv, 447 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Summary
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 18, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-426) and index.
Contents
The Stanford entertainment
The yellow jacket murder
God of the sun
Harnessing the elephant
The photographer
Flora Downs
Occident
Harry Larkyns
The octopus
Little Harry
King Eadweard
Marital rights
The grocer
The immigrant
The trial
The speculator
Verdicts
The horse lovers
Prestidigitator
Motion, study
Celluloid
The flood.
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