It spends more time off the ground than on it. Perhaps flying would be a more apt description.

#muybridge

Reminds me of Edward Muggeridge's work (and yes I know he called himself Eadweard Muybridge).

>> ^Mcboinkens:

Why do I not understand how this works.


"Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina."

Eadweard Muybridge is considered the father of filmmaking for his first attempts at capturing this phenomenon with his Zoopraxiscope. Who says film students aren't worth something?

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Agreed that we could have had a viable electric car by now that could go hundreds of miles on one charge IF the big car companies set their R+D brains to it and it was fully backed by the government. You know it only took our engineers approx. seven years to develop a "vehicle" that took three men to the moon (in 1969 for a nice moon walk on the surface for two) and back here to Earth.

Our government needs to require the car companies to produce a workable affordable vehicle starting NOW to get out from under the need for Middle Eastern oil which is ruining the environment. It is a absurd situation we are in.

I do wonder what our world would be like if the inventions of Nicola Tesla were allowed to be developed. Wireless free energy is quite a concept. He had hundreds of patents for his numerous inventions---a true genius. It is a shame that his competitor, Edison, resorted to Mafioso thuggery to stamp out the ideas of any competitor he viewed as a threat (including Tesla). It is hard to fathom the fact that the man who developed + invented the electric light bulb as well as the "recording arts" of 35 mm film movies (around 1888) and audio recording had a group of thugs sent out to stop his competition. Edison was inspired by the work of Muybridge in 1888 who made some rudimentary "movies" which had some very beautiful nude+natural females in them as the very first movie actresses. Edison went on to invent 35 mm film and the first Movie Production Studio. He was an enigma who had genius none the less.

It is also an amazing fact that Edison actually developed+produced Electric Cars from 1907 to 1915--the Bailey-Edison Electric Phaeton Cars which ran on electricity A CENTURY AGO ! They could go 100 miles on a single charge purportedly. Amazing, isn't it ?

Who killed the electric car a century ago ?

The video was made from someone's old VHS tape and is rather blurry and pixellated, unfortunately. Marked NSFW only because of a few brief flashes of nudity.

This is from A Gentleman's Honor, a work based on the murder trial of Eadweard Muybridge, known for his innovations in the photography of motion.