Horse Lovers Rejoice! Yesterday's "Google Doodle" was the first animation by Eadweard Muybridge, which he composed to answer the question of whether a horse's four legs are airborne at the same time while trotting. Why did Google choose to feature such a doodle?  Yesterday would have been his 182nd Birthday.

The images produced were viewed on a device that Muybridge invented called the zoopraxiscope, through the device the images appeared to be in motion.  The slow-motion images showed exactly how, while running, a horses’ four hooves leave the ground together.  The series of images as seen in the zoopraxiscope is regarded as one of the earliest efforts in taking motion pictures and probably inspired Thomas Edison’s invention of the kinetoscope.

Read the rest of the article over on at abcNews.