The inventor and the tycoon : a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures / Edward Ball.
Title:
The inventor and the tycoon : a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures / Edward Ball.
ISBN:
9780385525756
9780767929400
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, [2013]
©2013
Physical Description:
xiv, 447 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
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.
OCLC Number:
ocn745979717
Availability:
Burnsville - Burnhaven~1
