Today in 1903, Harold E. Edgerton, pioneer of high-speed photography, was born.
In 1931, he earned his PhD at MIT. His doctoral dissertation included a high-speed motion picture of a motor in motion, made with a mercury-arc stroboscope. From 1931 onwards, Edgerton developed and improved strobes …
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