Amaya Toman With the start of a new week, we bring you another part of our regular series on significant events in the history of technology. Today we will remember the birth of stop-motion photography and the famous shots of a running horse, but we will also talk about the departure of Bill Gates from the management of Microsoft.
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Birth of “Stop-motion” photography (1878)
On June 15, 1878, the photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured the movement of a horse using high-speed photography - you have surely seen the mentioned footage. The photographs of a horse in motion from the Animal Locomotion series went down in history as the beginning of stop motion technology. Born in London in 1830, Eadweard Muybridge is famous for his enthusiasm for motion capture, the invention of the zoopraxiscope and the kinematoscope, and is considered the founder of chronophotography.
Bill Gates announces retirement from Microsoft (2006)
On June 15, 2006, Bill Gates officially announced that, effective July 2008, he would step down from his day-to-day duties as a director of Microsoft. The reason was an effort to spend more time on charitable activities. Gates' work has been reduced from full-time to part-time, and Gates has emphasized that he is in no way about to retire. "I have one of the best jobs in the world," he said at one of the press conferences.
Other events not only in the field of technology
- Compuserve's Sandy Trevor releases GIF version 87a (1987) with his colleagues
- The animated Disney film The Lion King (1994) premieres in cinemas
