
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

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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