- Pictured on one of a set of four 32¢ US commemorative postage stamps honoring "Pioneers of Communication", issued 22 February 1996. Also honored in the set are William K.L. Dickson, Ottmar Mergenthaler (inventor of the Linoype machine), and Frederick Eugene Ives (inventor of the halftone photogravure printing process).
- He invented the still camera array, which predates the motion picture camera, and would later be re-popularized in The Matrix (1999).
- He changed his name several times. He adopted the first name "Eadweard" as the original Anglo-Saxon form of "Edward", and the surname "Muybridge", believing it to be similarly archaic.
- Muybridge returned to San Francisco on 13 February 1867 a changed man. Friends and associates stated that he had changed from a smart and pleasant businessman into an eccentric artist and could hardly recognize him.
- Zoopraxiscope have been one of the primary inspirations for Thomas A. Edison and William K.L. Dickson's Kinetoscope, the first commercial film exhibition system.
- At the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Muybridge presented a series of lectures and used his zoopraxiscope to show his moving pictures to a paying public in the Zoopraxographical Hall. The Hall was the first commercial movie theatre.
- He was influenced by, and in turn, influenced the French photographer Étienne-Jules Marey. In 1881 he visited Marey's studio in France and viewed his stop-motion studies before returning to the US to further his own work in the same area.
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