Abstract
THE wonderful photographs by Muybridge of the horse in motion and those by Maret of the bird on the wing induced me to attempt the construction of apparatus by which the otherwise unassisted eye could verify their results and catch other transient phases of rapid gesture. Its execution has proved unexpectedly easy, and the result is that even the rudest of the instruments I have used is sufficient for the former purpose; it will even show the wheel of a bicycle at full speed as a well-defined and apparently stationary object. This little apparatus may prove to be an important instrument of research in the hands of observers of beasts, birds and insects, and of physicists who investigate such subjects as the behaviour of fluids in motion.
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