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Xenon turned out to be just what Harold Edgerton was looking for.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Xenon turned out to be just what Harold Edgerton was looking for.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Harold Edgerton, Doc Edgerton from up at MIT, was the father of the strobe and this just shows how you can stop a bullet at 1,900 miles per hour going through an apple.
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Its circular, dishlike base ringed with droplets mimics Harold Edgerton's famous stopped-time photo "Milkdrop Coronet."
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Its circular, dishlike base ringed with droplets mimics Harold Edgerton's famous stopped-time photo Milkdrop Coronet.
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Harold Edgerton, a professor of electrical engineering at MIT.
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The MIT Museum is celebrating its new exhibit, "Visionary Engineer, Harold Edgerton, '' commemorating the work of Harold" Doc '' Edgerton.
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The work of David Wojnarowicz and Paul McCarthy present the contact sheet as a work of art, while those of artists such as Andy Warhol, Harold Edgerton, and Robert Frank play with its repeating forms.
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The MIT Museum is celebrating its new exhibit, "Visionary Engineer, Harold Edgerton, '' commemorating the work of Harold" Doc '' Edgerton.
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TORONTO Frank Mädler / Harold Edgerton opening 12-4pm (Gus Kayafas talk 1: 30pm) Corkin Gallery 55 Mill St bldg 61
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Known for the invention of electronic flash photography--he took many photographs of bullets piercing fruit.
"The origin of strobe lighting dates to 1931, when Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton employed a flashing lamp to make an improved stroboscope for the study of moving objects, eventually resulting in dramatic photographs photographs of objects such as bullets in flight."
--From the Wikipedia page for Strobe light
December 24, 2010