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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

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

Bullet through the Queen of Hearts

'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 '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