But personal disaster overshadowed Muybridge’s remarkable achievement. Stanford’s particular obsession was whether the four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground all at once, and with Muybridge he finally found an answer. During the late 1870s, in frontier California, English immigrant Eadweard Muybridge managed to capture time and play it back on a screen, inventing stop-motion photography and moving pictures, breakthrough technologies that ushered in our age of visual media. Bankrolling his endeavor was tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, who built the western half of the transcontinental railroad and personally drove in the last golden spike. The riveting, true story of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.Įdward Ball’s ability to mine history and draw out its secrets has earned him a significant critical reputation. In The Inventor and the Tycoon, he produces the compelling saga of an artistic genius, a ruthless railroad tycoon, and a sordid crime of passion.
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