# The Inventor and the Tycoon

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- Book: [The Inventor and the Tycoon](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-ball/the-inventor-and-the-tycoon) ([The Inventor and the Tycoon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-ball/the-inventor-and-the-tycoon.md))
- Authors: [Edward Ball](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-ball)
- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-07-6792-940-0
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2013-11-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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, inventing...