|
The inventor and the tycoon : a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures / Edward Ball. |
| Authors: | Ball, Edward, 1959- |
| Call number: | 777 BAL |
| Publisher: | New York : Doubleday, c2013. |
| Publication date: | c2013. |
| Subject: |
Trials (Murder) -- California -- San Francisco.
Cinematography -- United States -- History. Motion pictures -- United States -- History. Cinematographers -- California -- Biography. Businesspeople -- California -- Biography. Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904 -- Trials, litigation, etc. Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893. |
| Title: | The inventor and the tycoon : a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures / Edward Ball. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | xiv, 447 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-426) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780385525756 (hbk.) 0385525753 (hbk.) 9780767929400 (pbk.) 0767929403 (pbk.) |
| LCCN: | 2012019977 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1412773 |
| Bib No.: | 1412773 |
Show Available
| Item availability |
| Location | Collection | Call No. | Status |
| Central Library | Nonfiction, Adult | 777 BAL | Checked In |
| Central Library | Nonfiction, Adult - Non-Floating | 777 BAL | Checked In |
| Central Library | Nonfiction, Adult | 777 BAL | Checked out |
| Franklin Road Library | Nonfiction, Adult | 777 BAL | Checked In |
| Garfield Park Library | Nonfiction, Adult | 777 BAL | Checked out |
| Lawrence Library | Nonfiction, Adult | 777 BAL | Checked In |
| Nora Library | Nonfiction, Adult | 777 BAL | Checked In |
| Nora Library | Nonfiction, Adult | 777 BAL | Checked out |
| Pike Library | Nonfiction, Adult | 777 BAL | Checked In |
| Pike Library | Nonfiction, Adult | 777 BAL | Checked In |
| Southport Library | Nonfiction, Adult | 777 BAL | Checked out |
| Warren Library | Nonfiction, Adult | 777 BAL | Checked out |