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Multiflash reveals the magnificent geometry of motion as a talented diver, Burt West, flips backwards in a procedure that lasted less than half a second; taken in 1954. West was preparing a manual for divers, and engaged Harold E. Edgerton to assist him. See "Stopping Time" (1987), p. 6. (CC)

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