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The life of Harold Edgerton
Autumn Montgomery
“Gus Solomons” 1987
Bobby Jones (High-Speed Photography) – 1938
Pete Desjardin Diving - 1940
Bullet through Bubble filled with Helium- 1987
Bullet through a Jack
Jumping Girl- 1940
Edgerton in His Lab- 1942
Biographical Information
• Born in Freemont, Nebraska April 6th, 1903• Grew up in Aurora, Nebraska• Graduated from the University of Nebraska at
Lincoln • Married Esther May Garrett in 1928.
Training, Career, and Achievements
• Edgerton went to MIT • “Father of Modern Photography”• Invented a Flash Machine to capture high
speed photography. • National Geographic wrote “Doc Edgerton:
The Man who made Time stand Still”
Sources
• http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/ • http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/edge
rtonexhibit/harolddocedgertonindex.html
• http://www.edgerton.org/