This Day in History: 1830-04-09

Eadweard Muybridge, a photographer who anticipated motion picture technology, is born on this day in 1830.  Muybridge made  photographic history with this series of photos  after being challenged by California Gov. Leland Stanford to settle a bet about whether or not a horse’s hooves left the ground when it ran. Muybridge’s photos from the 1870s  — later assembled in motion  pictures — showed  that they hooves do indeed leave the ground.