Gelatin silver photograph of lamp bulbs broken by a .30 caliber bullet (2800 feet per second) by Harold Edgerton, c 1950. Notice that the bulbs cracks on the opposite side of the glass before the bullet arrives due to high velocity waves in the glass. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1978-152/18
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
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overall: 348 mm x 274 mm
- type:
- photograph and gelatin silver print
- credit:
- The National Media Museum, Bradford
