The inventor and the tycoon : a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures /

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Author / Creator:Ball, Edward, 1959-
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Doubleday, c2013.
Description:xiv, 447 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9023821
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ISBN:9780385525756 (hbk.)
0385525753 (hbk.)
9780385535496 (ebk.)
038553549X (ebk.)
9780767929400 (pbk.)
0767929403 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-426) and index.
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.