Muybridge's groundbreaking work began in 1878, when former California Governor Leland Stanford hired him to settle the debate over whether all four of a horse's hooves left the ground during a gallop. Using a series of trip-wired cameras, Muybridge captured the famous sequence 'The Horse in Motion,' proving Stanford right. This project directly led Muybridge to invent the zoopraxiscope in 1879, a device that projected these images in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion, a foundatio