Skip to main content

Motion Study

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Animals in Motion, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1896
Scope and Contents

Fascimile of 'a reduced scale of series 28 "Animals in Motion" photographed with an automatic electrophotographic apparatus in 1878' by Eadweard Muybridge. The text beneath the image notes that the above series depicted in 19 frames the 'phases of one complete stride of the horse "Edgington" which was owned by Senator Leland Stanford while trotting at a speed of a mile in 2 minutes and 16 seconds at Palo Alto, California in the Spring of 1879.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Conformation Draught Horse, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3073
Scope and Contents

Illustration and text on the conformation of a Draught horse. The illustration is by Eadweard Muybridge in 1897 from 'Animals in Motion' showing the hind-limbs bent to drawing a load. The text describes the movement of the horse.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

De gyratione Globorum de collisione mutua Probl: Halleianum 3, c January 1695

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [7]
Scope and Contents

Treatment of Sir Edmond Halley's method of finding the rotary motions produced in two spheres by an oblique impact. Appears to have been written in a hand other than David Gregory's, [Halley's?] though the title is clearly in his.

Dates: c January 1695

Diencephalic stimulation and mouth movements in the chicken, 1973

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/808
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1973.

Dates: 1973

Fast or Flying Amble [Horses], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1879
Scope and Contents

Illustrations of the phases of a horses fast or flying amble.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Flying Trot [Horses], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1878
Scope and Contents

Illustrations of the phases of a horses flying trot.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Gallop and Walk [Horses], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1881
Scope and Contents

Photographs of a horse walking and galloping. The top two photographs, Fig.3 and Fig. 4 show a man riding a black horse at a gallop; and the bottom two photographs, Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 show a man riding a white horse at a walk to illustrate the differences in the gait and leg positions of the horse when in motion.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Gallop [Horse], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1978
Scope and Contents

A twelve frame motion study illustration of a horse's gallop indicating the pattern of the footfalls.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Hackney Stallion Lifting, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2117
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Hackney stallion lifting its opposite front and back legs.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Horse at Full Trot, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1873
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a jockey riding a horse at full trot. The jockey is holding a camera/recording device in one hand and the reins and recording cables in the other. The cables are attached to each of the horses legs. Beneath the image is a digaram showing the rhythm of the stride.

Dates: 1870s-1930s