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Milk Drop Coronet

c. 1957

Anna's Hummingbird, Los Angeles, California, 1947

1947

Bullet Through An Apple

Multiflash photograph of a golf club impact, by Harold Edgerton, c. 1950. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton. The golf ball rotates 70 times per second and in order to capture the golf club hitting the golf ball, Edgerton used 1000 flashes per second.

Multiflash of a golf club impact at 1000 flashes per second....

1950-1960

Multiflash photograph of a fencing salute, by Harold Edgerton, c .1950. The fencer was washed out from the amount of flash used to capture the motion. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Multiflash photograph of a fencing salute

1950-1960

Multiflash photograph of a tennis serve by Gussie Moran, taken at 60 flashes per second, by Harold Edgerton. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton. Gertrude 'Gussie' Moran is an American tennis player who later became a sports broadcaster in the States.

Multiflash photograph of a tennis serve by Gussie Moran

Gelatin silver photograph of three balloons broken by a .22 caliber bullet, c 1950. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Three balloons broken by a .22 caliber bullet

circa 1950

Gelatin silver multiflash photograph of a man twirling an Indian club, photograph by Harold Edgerton, c 1950. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Indian club multiflash

circa 1950

Gelatin silver photograph Golfer Dennis Shute, multiflash (100 per second rate), taken by Harold Edgerton, 1938. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Golfer, multiflash (100 per second rate) photograph of Dennis Shute

1938

Forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton

Gelatin silver multiflash photograph of the snap of a whip, 120 flashes per second, photograph by Harold Edgerton, c 1950. Chalk dust on the whip's tip shows where the action has happened. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

The snap of a whip, 120 flashes per second....

circa 1950

Gelatin silver Stonehenge illuminated with a 5000 watt-second electronic flash lamp from a Boston, A-20 aircraft (1500 feet altitude) while training for D-Day, by Harold Edgerton, 1944. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Stonehenge illuminated with a 5000 watt-second electronic flash lamp....

1944

Photograph of bullet piercing a soap bubble filled with helium. By Harold Edgerton. Gelatin Silver print. 0.1 m/s exposure. The shock wave is also visible.

Photograph of bullet through soap bubble, filled with helium.

circa 1970

Multiflash photograph of a back dive in the MIT pool, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taken by Harold Edgerton, 1941. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Multiflash photograph of a back dive in the MIT pool

1941

A gelatin silver multiflash photograph of dancer Gus Soloman by Harold Edgerton, 1960. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Multiflash Photograph of Dancer Gus Soloman

1960

Multiflash photograph of the bounce of a golf ball, by Harold Edgerton 1951. Photographed at 60 flashes per second, capturing the full trajectory of the bouncing golf ball. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Multiflash photograph of the bounce of a golf ball

1951

Gelatin silver photograph of the flight of a baton at 60 flashes per second, by Harold Edgerton, 1953. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Flight of a Baton

1953

Multiflash photograph of Peter Des Jardin diving into the MIT pool, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, by Harold Edgerton, 1941, capturing the full range of movement as the diver does a backflip off the diving board. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Multiflash photograph of Peter Des Jardin diving into MIT pool

1941

Gelatin silver photograph of the Impact of .22 caliber bullets on a steel plate, taken by Harold Edgerton, c 1950. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Impact of .22 caliber bullets on a steel plate

circa 1950

Gelatin silver photograph of shotgun pellets, exposure less than a microsecond, taken by Harold Edgerton, c 1950. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Shotgun pellets

circa 1950

Gelatin silver photograph of an ancient revolver in action, taken by Harold Edgerton, c 1950. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

An ancient revolver in action

circa 1950

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.

Lamp bulbs broken by a .30 caliber bullet

circa 1950

Black-and-white photograph of bullet passing through three balloons. Taken by Harold Edgerton, 1959. Gelatin Silver print.

Photograph of bullet passing through three balloons

1959

Enlargement print of high speed photograph of gunshot. By Harold Edgerton. Gelatin Silver print.

High speed photograph of gunshot

circa 1950

Enlargement print of high speed photograph entitled 'Fan and Smoke Vortices', by Harold Edgerton. Photograph displayed at the Royal Photographic Society in London in 1934. Gelatin Silver print.

Fan and smoke vortices

1934

Enlargement print of high speed photograph entitled '.30 caliber bullet through bar of soap, by Harold Edgerton. Gelatin Silver print.

.30 caliber bullet through bar of soap

circa 1950

Black-and-white silhouette photograph of tracks in a hydrogen gas bubble chamber left by moving particles. Taken by Harold Edgerton for MIT, 1967. Gelatin Silver print.

Silhouette photograph of tracks in a bubble chamber

1967

'Moving skip rope' Enlargement print of multiflash photograph of woman skipping, fired 30 times per second. By Harold Edgerton, 1952. Gelatin Silver print.

Moving skip rope

1952

Enlargement print of high speed photograph entitled 'Atomic Bomb explosion', by Harold Edgerton. Photographed at the Nevada Proving Grounds by Edgerton and his colleagues at EG&G for the Atomic Energy Commission. Shows the first microseconds of an atomic explosion, the fireball was documented in a 1/100,000,000-of-a-second exposure, taken from seven miles away with a lens ten feet long. The intense heat vaporized the steel tower and turned the desert sand to glass. Taken before 1952 (from http://edgerton-digital-collections.org)

Atomic bomb explosion

circa 1950

Black and white photograph entitled 'A Black Chinned Hummingbird, Los Angeles, California, 1947' by Harold Edgerton. Gelatin Silver print.

A Black Chinned Hummingbird, Los Angeles, California, 1947

1947

Silhouette, multiflash photograph of dynamite cap explosion. 0.1 m/s exposure. Taken by Harold Edgerton, 1958. Gelatin Silver print.

Silhouette photograph, dynamite cap explosion

1958

Two Cibachrome high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Two Cibachrome high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton

28 monochrome and 4 colour enlargement prints of photographs by Dr. Harold Edgerton

28 monochrome and 4 colour enlargement prints of photographs by Dr Harold Edgerton

Colour enlargement prints of high speed photograph entitled 'Bullet through the Queen of Hearts', by Harold Edgerton.

Bullet through the Queen of Hearts

Gelatin silver photograph of smoke passing through the blades of an electric fan, taken by Harold Edgerton, c 1950. A vortex forms at the tip of each blade. The fan revolves at 2500 rpm. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Smoke passing through the blades of an electric fan....

circa 1950

Gelatin silver photograph a small atomic explosion in Nevada, photographed with a Faraday magneto-optic shutter by Harold Edgerton, c 1950. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

A small atomic explosion in Nevada....

circa 1950

Multflash photograph of a golfer's swing, by Harold Edgerton, 1944. The photograph was taken at the rate of 120 flash per second, capturing the trajectory of the golf ball and the tee. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

Multiflash photograph of a golfer's swing

1972

Gelatin silver photograph King of Hearts playing card cut by a 30 caliber bullet, exposure less than a millionth of a second, taken by Harold Edgerton, 1960. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

King of Hearts playing card cut by a .30 caliber bullet....

1960