Milk Coronet,1957
Bullet through Apple, 1964
"Cutting the Card," 1964, 1/1,000,000 exposure, .30 caliber bullet
Antique Gun Firing, 1936
Bullet through Jack of Hearts, 1960
Bullet Shock Wave, 1970
Bullet through glass
Death of a Lightbulb, 1936
"Bullet Through Balloons," 1959 .22 caliber bullet.
"Puncturing a Balloon," 1977, 3/10,000,000 exposure, .22 caliber bullet
Bullet "Stopped" by 1/1,000,000 Second Exposure ]
Bullet through rubber bands
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Edgerton's
notes show a measurement of 166 feet per second during Bobby's swing,
which comes out to around 112 mph! Super fast for this era's heavier
equipment!
In the lab/studio at MIT with golfer Bobby Jones
Densmore Shute bends the Shaft, 1938. Edgerton was filming many notable PGA pros in this manner during the late 1930's.
Fly Fisherman
Golfer Bobby Jones, 1938
Skipping Rope, 1952 
Dancer, 1952
Cat Jumping Over a Piano Bench, 1938
Baton, 1953
Swirls and Eddies: Tennis ~ 1939
Pancho Gonzales, 1949
Football Kick, 1934
Football kick, 1938
Acrobates
Boxer, 1940
Boxer, 1939
Jim Dotson Hits the Softball, 1938
Paper mill worker, 1937
Water Sprinkler, 1939
Cup of coffee on impact
Egg hits the fan with Edgerton
Dye Drop, 1960
Water Dropping into Water, 1978
Atomic Bomb Explosion
Atomic Bomb Explosion. Since
each camera could record only one exposure on a sheet of film, banks of
four to 10 cameras were set up to take sequences of photographs. The
average exposure time was three millionths of a second. The cameras were
last used at the Test Site in 1962.
Test Tube Breaking
Aerial flash photograph,1946, of the Pentagon taken by U.S. Army Air Force using equipment provided by Harold E. Edgerton.
Portrait of Edgerton at MIT
Edgerton with his flash equipment
Portrait of Harold Edgerton with his iconic image
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