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

@mcnees I lived in Edgerton House, a graduate residence, when I studied at MIT.
@va2lam @mcnees Building 34, home of the big lecture hall 34-101, is the "EG&G Education Center". Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier were all associated with Course VI, and Joel Moses liked to tell the story of how each man was convinced to give money for the building's construction by telling him that the other two had agreed. (Building 34 was designed as part of the 36–38 complex but the money ran out and 34 was deferred until additional funds could be raised.)
@va2lam @mcnees While Edgerton is best known for high-speed photography, EG&G was also a major supplier of detonator components for nuclear weapons.
@wollman @va2lam The EG&G Ortec offices were right down the road from where I grew up!