Google Doodles for Eadweard Muybridge

Googlers today will be greeted with a series of fast galloping horses, and as amazed they would be; they would have English photographer, Eadweard Muybridge to thank. Born on this day, back in 1830, Eadweard Muybridge was born Edward James Muggeridge and during the course of his early career in U.S, he changed his name to first Eduardo Santiago, then to Eadweard and finally to Eadweard Muybridge. An English photographer, Muybridge is remembered to this day for his pioneering work on animal locomotion - a feat he achieved by using multiple cameras to capture motion, and he also used a zoopraxiscope, a device used essentially to depict motion in pictures - a technology that came before flexible perforated film strip. Click here for full story