It all started in 1879 with this guy,Eadweard Muybridge, and an unusual challenge....
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It all started in 1879 with this guy,
Eadweard Muybridge, and an unusual challenge. Muybridge set out to settle a bet about whether a galloping horse ever has
all four feet off the ground. The human eye couldn't tell. Muybridge thought the newfangled invention
of photography could. So, along the edge of a racetrack,
he set out 12 glass-plate cameras whose shutters were triggered
by tripwires as the horse ran past. It showed that
galloping horses do indeed get airborne. But Muybridge was about to make
an even bigger breakthrough. He then painted silhouettes of the images onto a wheel
Eadweard Muybridge, and an unusual challenge. Muybridge set out to settle a bet about whether a galloping horse ever has
all four feet off the ground. The human eye couldn't tell. Muybridge thought the newfangled invention
of photography could. So, along the edge of a racetrack,
he set out 12 glass-plate cameras whose shutters were triggered
by tripwires as the horse ran past. It showed that
galloping horses do indeed get airborne. But Muybridge was about to make
an even bigger breakthrough. He then painted silhouettes of the images onto a wheel
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It all started in 1879 with this guy,
Eadweard Muybridge,
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and an unusual challenge.
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Muybridge set out to settle a bet
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about whether a galloping horse ever has
all four feet off the ground.
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The human eye couldn't tell.
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Muybridge thought the newfangled invention
of photography could.
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So, along the edge of a racetrack,
he set out 12 glass-plate cameras
00:00:26.567 --> 00:00:30.404
whose shutters were triggered
by tripwires as the horse ran past.
00:00:31.906 --> 00:00:35.493
It showed that
galloping horses do indeed get airborne.
00:00:36.243 --> 00:00:39.787
But Muybridge was about to make
an even bigger breakthrough.
00:00:40.997 --> 00:00:42.166
He then painted silhouettes of the images
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onto a wheel.
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Scientists investigate unusual events from pop culture, science and history.
