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The period at the turn of the century was one of great technological change, which inspired artists of the time to create new kinds of works, through new mediums and new ways of representation. In particular, the increasingly wide-spread use of the camera and the new advances in machinery such as the invention of the motor car provided a whole new range of inspiration for artists. These new developments in technology and in particular the works of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey, inspired artists such as Umberto Boccioni, Marcel Duchamp and Giocomo Balla. By investigating the work in chronophotography by Muybridge and Marey, as well as the new technologies of the camera and advances in machinery which inspired the Futurists, it is possible to see how the artists mentioned have created works that are based on and inspired by technology, and are therefore works which capture the ‘spirit of the century’. In the late 1800’s, two artists, Eadweard Muybridge in England and Etienne-Jules Marey in France, developed new ways of using the photographic camera in order to capture what looked like the actual sequence of movement. Muybridge set up a line of cameras which took individual photos of a figure, which, when p