The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball
The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
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Edward Ball
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The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

Edward Ball

464 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography historical history reflective slow-paced
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A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book of the YearNearly 140 years ago, in frontier California, photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured time with his camera and played it back on a flickering screen, inventing the breakthrough technology of moving pic...

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