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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.
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).
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 ...
Stopping Time, Harold Edgerton, January–April 2005; Mestizjae, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, January–April 2005 [46] Photography of Hugh Scott, The Oklahoma City National Memorial, 10 Years Remembering, April–July 2005; An Itinerant Eye, James Walden, July–December 2005; A Life In Photography, Arnold Newman, July–December 2005
Example of a stopping time: a hitting time of Brownian motion.The process starts at 0 and is stopped as soon as it hits 1. In probability theory, in particular in the study of stochastic processes, a stopping time (also Markov time, Markov moment, optional stopping time or optional time [1]) is a specific type of “random time”: a random variable whose value is interpreted as the time at ...
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 ...
Quicker'n a Wink is a 1940 American short documentary film in the Pete Smith Specialities series about stroboscopic photography and the work of Doc Edgerton, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The film was written by Buddy Adler and directed by George Sidney.
The view of critics on the book was mixed. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Victoria Glendinning stated "it is a moral challenge to be faced or it is simply meant as outrageous comedy, or as material for the sex-war, or as a portrait of a literary psychopath.