Engineer and photographer Harold Edgerton was born #OTD in 1903.
Edgerton pioneered various forms of high-speed photography using specialized cameras, strobe lighting, and other techniques. You’ve probably seen many of the images he created!
Images: MIT; H. Edgerton
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Harold “Doc” Edgerton, MIT professor of electrical engineering:
Doc, also known as Papa Flash, transformed the stroboscope into a tool for sonar and deep-sea photography.
Jacques Cousteau used his equipment in shipwreck and Loch Ness monster searches.
Like many MIT faculty, Doc was a student there, getting an advanced degree in 1931 and never left.
His high-speed photography also became a new art form and his short film on stroboscopic photography won an Oscar in 1940.
https://aotus.blogs.archives.gov/2019/12/20/remembering-doc-edgerton/
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