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December 3, 2010
Strange But True!
Q. Can a horse fly? Seems like nonsense yet the question prompted railroad baron and former California governor Leland Stanford to join forces with photographic wizard Eadweard Muybridge to provide an answer. What's the full story?
A. It was the 1870s, a time of technical explosion with the invention of the telephone and phonograph and with Thomas Edison about to unveil the light bulb, reported Stanford University Magazine. The scientific world was also debating whether a galloping racehorse lifts all four legs in the air at once, with advocates swearing they did and opponents as vehemently denying it.
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