The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

by Edward Ball

Book Overview

A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book of the Year Nearly 140 years ago, in frontier California, photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured time with his camera and played it back on a flickering screen,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385525753
• ISBN13: 9780385525756
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 447 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"