HAROLD EDGERTON MARY CAROTA, TIFFANY CORONEL, AND KAITLYN HANSEL

GENERAL INFORMATION Born: April 6 th, 1903 in Aurora, Nebraska Died: January 4 th, 1990 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Spouse: Esther Garret (m. 1928) Education: University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Awards: National Medal of Technology and Innovation, National Medal of Science for Engineering, and SPIE Gold Medal Books: Electronic flash, strobe, Sonar images, and Exploring the Art and Science of Stopping Time

HAROLD EUGENE EDGERTON

INSPIRATIONS Edgerton was inspired by art and science during the 20th century. He worked with underwater photography and strobe photography.

INVENTION “Harold Edgerton invented the electronic flash – which allowed him to capture things the human eye cannot see. Stephen Dowling looks at his legacy.” “During an experiment using a rudimentary computer, Edgerton found the overheating warning lights (blinking at 60 times a second) seemed to freeze the moving parts of its motor as if they were standing still. It gave Edgerton the idea that bright, split-second bursts of light could illuminate this high-speed world. In those days, there were no high-speed films allowing you to shoot with ambient light unless you used a shutter speed lasting many seconds - pretty useless unless your subject was stock still. Flash was vital in giving enough light for these 'slow' films to capture moving objects.”

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