Google today is celebrating the 182nd birthday of Eadweard Muybridge, an English photographer of the Dutch ancestry who is famously know for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip.
In celebration of Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday, Google is honoring the English novelist, who is considered to be one the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, by featuring a Google Doodle on its search home page. The Dickens Google doodle went up first in New Zealand and features characters from his novels including Scrooge, Bob Cratchit and Pip.