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Articles and Videos: 35

Mapping the Charles River with Doc

Dr. Harold Edgerton: Abstractions exhibit at Michael Hoppen Gallery

A Car As Fast As Doc’s Speeding Bullets

Featured Articles:

Articles

Doc, Sonar and the Maddening Charles

Exploding Pingers and Dinner Parties: Doc in the 1950s

Seeing in the Dark

Underwater sonar acoustics

Marine Biology

Strobe in Industry: 1931 – onwards

Popular Interest: 1932 – 1941

Sonar

Wartime Strobe: 1939 – 1945

EG&G the Company: 1947 Onwards

Doc Edgerton’s Personal Take on Gratitude

Frozen time, altered perspectives in new photo shows

Science Friday Picture of the Week: Milk Drop

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

Recent Web Links: Doc Edgerton Today!

Additional Reading – Bibliography

A Long CALYPSO Friendship: Albert Falco and Doc

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

A Serendipitous Tour of Doc’s Lab in 1987

Multi-Flash Fencing at MIT

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

The Three Docs at EG&G (1970s-1980s)

Doc’s Strobe Lights on Boston’s Prudential Tower

Personal Stories

Afraid To Break the News

Videos

Midwestern Boy: 1903 – 1926

Publication Guidelines and Copyright/Licensing Terms of Use

Reading List

Doc’s Legacy at EG&G: Global Environmental & Oceanographic Systems

Doc and Ben Franklin

High Speed Camera

Multiflash

Drops & Splashes

Tell a story

Drawing of Strobes on Under Water Vehicle (Bathyscaphe)

Flash! First Book of Edgerton Photographs

1939 World’s Fair in New York City

Galleries

Stories About Doc

Aerial Reconnaissance

Introduction

Underwater Photography

Cousteau Collaborations

Underwater Vehicles

Akademik Kurchatov

Shipwreck Studies

Copyright/Licensing Terms of Use

Credits

Nighttime Photography

About the Project

Transcribe a page

Studies at MIT: 1926 – 1931

Rapatronic Shutter

Schlieren

Shadow Photography

Stroboscopic

Time Lapse Photography

Underwater Exploration: 1953 – 1986

Lifetime of Teaching: 1928 – 1987

Additional Reading

Doc at Loch Ness: A Bolt From the Blue

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