Edgerton, Harold Eugene, 1903-1990
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Edgerton, Harold Eugene, 1903-1991
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Edgerton, Harold Eugene (American scientist and photographer, 1903-1990)
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Edgerton, H. E. 1903-1990 (Harold Eugene),
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Edgerton, H. E. 1903-1990
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Edgerton, Harold Eugene
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
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Harold "Doc" Eugene Edgerton, 1903-1990, BS 1926, University of Nebraska; SM 1927 and ScD 1931 in electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was professor of electrical engineering at MIT, 1928-1966; Institute Professor, 1966-1968; and Institute Professor emeritus, 1968-1990. Edgerton perfected the stroboscope and developed photographic techniques that allowed very rapid events to be observed and captured on film. He also developed techniques for underwater exploration, using sonar devices and flash photography, and participated in many oceanographic and archaeological expeditions. During World War II he designed a strobe lamp for nighttime aerial reconnaissance photography for the US Army Air Force and directed its use in Italy, England, and France. In 1947, with Kenneth J. Germeshausen and Herbert E. Grier, former students, he formed Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier, Inc. (EG&G,Inc.), a company specializing in electronic technology. In 1953 he began a long association with French underwater explorer Jacques Yves Cousteau, accompanying him on numerous expeditions and designing various devices for underwater photography and exploration.
Harold Eugene Edgerton was an electrical engineer and a photographer whose work reflects his interest in "stopping motion" in order to study it. To this end he and his partners Kenneth Germeshausen and Herbert E. Grier invented a variety of strobe systems which allow for exposures so brief as to capture on film events which occur too quickly to be perceived by the unaided eye.
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Action photography
Aerial reconnaissance
Art and photography
Atom bomb
Bats
Birds
Broken glass
Bullets
College teaching
Dancing
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineers
Electronic flash photography
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mosquitos
Motion picture cameras
Motion study
Nature photography
Night photography
Nuclear weapons
Oceanography
Oceanography
Photography
Photography
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Photography, High-speed
Photography in oceanography
Revolvers
Scientific instruments
Shock waves
Sidescan sonor
Smoke
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Strobe Alley
Stroboscopes
Underwater cameras
Underwater exploration
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