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Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska, on April 6, 1903, the son of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, [3] [4] a descendant of Samuel Edgerton, the son of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut, and Alice Ripley, [5] a great-granddaughter of Governor William Bradford (1590–1657) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.
Milk Drop Coronet Scan of a dye-transfer print at the MIT Museum Artist Harold Edgerton Completion date January 10, 1957 Medium Kodak Panatomic X and Ektacolor Subject Drop of milk Location MIT Museum, Original negative destroyed; see Milk Drop Coronet § Physical copies for locations of copies Milk Drop Coronet is a high-speed photograph of a drop of milk falling onto the surface of a red pan ...
Harold Kenneth Edgerton (born February 18, 1948) is an American neoconfederate activist, known for his advocacy of Southern heritage and the Confederate flag.An African-American member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, [1] Edgerton formerly served as president of the Asheville, North Carolina, chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and is ...
EG&G, formally known as Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, Inc., was a United States national defense contractor and provider of management and technical services. The company was involved in contracting services to the United States government during World War II and conducted weapons research and development during the Cold war era (from 1948 and onward).
Hiram Edgerton (1847–1922), American businessman and politician; James A. Edgerton (1869–1938), American poet and politician; James Clark Edgerton (1896–1973), U.S. Army aviator and Air Mail pilot; Jim Edgerton (1930–2022), American painting subject; Joel Edgerton (born 1974), Australian actor; John Edgerton (1879–1938), American ...
A fact from Milk Drop Coronet appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 August 2024 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Doc Edgerton created a stroboscope that he used to take high-speed photographs of bullets being shot, insects flying, and drops of liquid (pictured)?
His review concluded by describing Edgerton as a skillful writer committed to scientific empiricism. [ 5 ] Anthropology professor David Kertzer , writing for The Washington Post , sympathized with the effort, considering how other societies were classically romanticized by anthropologists, but criticized the book for often selecting examples ...
In 1927, Harold Edgerton built his first flash unit while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wanting to photograph the motion of a motor in vivid detail, without blur, Edgerton decided to improve the process of spark photography by using a mercury-arc rectifier, instead of an open-air discharge, to produce the light. He was able to ...