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and determined to have experiments made on the 

 subject. He was fortunate enough to secure the 

 services of Mr. Muybridge, who obtained immense 

 success in photographing different kinds of paces. 

 A description has been given of these experiments 

 in a work published under the auspices of Mr. Stanford, 

 by Dr. Wellmann.* 



The scene of the operations was a track which 





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Fig. 72. — Field of operations arranged by Mr. Muybridge. On the left there is an 

 inclined screen which reflects the sun's rays, and before which the horse passes. 

 On the right there is a series of photographic cameras. Some other cameras 

 mounted on trestles enable the operator to obtain simultaneous photographs of a 

 hoise from variou- points of view. 



passed in front of a white inclined screen, and so 

 situated that it reflected the sunlight in the direction 

 of the photographic apparatus (Fig. 72). The screen was 

 marked with divisions at equal distances, which, when 

 reproduced in the photograph, served as a means of 

 measuring the distance traversed by the horse. 



A series of cameras was drawn up opposite to this 



* The Horse in Motion, as shoivn by Instantaneous Photography 

 London, Turner & Co ,1882. 



