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Articles and Videos: 35

How Fast Is Fast? [VIDEO]

Multi-Flash Fencing at MIT

Submit a Story about Doc

Studies at MIT: 1926 – 1931

Doc Edgerton’s Personal Take on Gratitude

Frozen time, altered perspectives in new photo shows

Science Friday Picture of the Week: Milk Drop

Mapping the Charles River with Doc

Dr. Harold Edgerton: Abstractions exhibit at Michael Hoppen Gallery

Seeing the Unseen [VIDEO]

MIT Presents High Speed Motion Pictures Taken with Stroboscopic Lights [VIDEO]

Mediterranean Sonar Research with Cousteau [VIDEO]

Underwater Photography - MIT Science Reporter TV [VIDEO]

Armada Shipwreck Search at Tobermory Bay (Mull, Scotland, U.K.) [VIDEO]

Rift Valley Expedition on R/V AKADEMIK KURCHATOV [VIDEO]

Synchronous Motor Motional Transients [VIDEO]

High Speed Photography: National Geographic Society Lecture (C) [VIDEO]

Edgerton Demonstrates Stroboscopic and High-Speed Photography [VIDEO]

Underwater Elapsed Time Motion Picture [VIDEO]

Spray Mechanism of African Bombardier Beetles [VIDEO]

Photographic Instrumentation Under the Sea [VIDEO]

High-Speed Motion Pictures With Stroboscopic Light [VIDEO]

Edgerton Short Subjects and Testing Sonar Equipment [VIDEO]

USS MONITOR Shipwreck Project [VIDEO]

Takes for "The Invisible World" [VIDEO]

Golf Players on the Green [VIDEO]

Flash Photography Set-Up and Demonstrations: Film Takes [VIDEO]

Copepods, Stentors, Milk Drops, Eric Newman [VIDEO]

Submersibles and Bathyscaphes in the Mediterranean Sea [VIDEO]

Photography of Microcirculation of the Blood [VIDEO]

A.E.C. Operation Redwing. EG&G Participation in Off-Continent Nuclear Tests [VIDEO]

Photography of Nuclear Detonations [VIDEO]

Remembering ‘Papa Flash’

Doc at San Severo, Italy 1943-1944

Additional Reading – Bibliography

Doc, Bats and Rattlesnakes in the 1930s and ’40s

Featured Articles:

A Serendipitous Tour of Doc’s Lab in 1987

Memories of My Senior Thesis Advisor, Doc Edgerton

Doc’s “Family” of Students in the 1960s

Photographing Transatlantic Cables With Doc in the 1960s

Doc as Match-Maker: The Beauty and Romance of a High-Speed Photograph

Doc’s Strobe Lights on Boston’s Prudential Tower

Doc, Sonar and the Maddening Charles

Exploding Pingers and Dinner Parties: Doc in the 1950s

Personal Stories

Afraid To Break the News

Publication Guidelines and Copyright/Licensing Terms of Use

Reading List

Doc and Ben Franklin

Sorry! Can’t get there from here.

Drops & Splashes

Tell a story

Seeing in the Dark

1939 World’s Fair in New York City

Galleries

Stories About Doc

Aerial Reconnaissance

Introduction

Underwater Photography

Underwater sonar acoustics

Cousteau Collaborations

Akademik Kurchatov

Shipwreck Studies

Copyright/Licensing Terms of Use

Credits

About the Project

Schlieren

Popular Interest: 1932 – 1941

Wartime Strobe: 1939 – 1945

Stroboscopic

EG&G the Company: 1947 Onwards

Underwater Exploration: 1953 – 1986

Lifetime of Teaching: 1928 – 1987

Additional Reading

Doc at Loch Ness: A Bolt From the Blue

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