Seeing the Unseen Dr. Harold E. Edgerton and the Wonders of Strobe Alley

Name: Seeing the Unseen Dr. Harold E. Edgerton and the Wonders of Strobe Alley
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ISBN: 9780262023870

ISBN-10: 0262023873

ISBN-13: 9780262023870

Edition: 1994

Authors: Roger R. Bruce, James L. Enyeart, Douglas Collins, Joyce Bedi

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For over 60 years, the ultra high-speed photography of Harold E. "Doc" Edgerton has stopped time. His work makes visible the elusive gestures and trajectories of our world in action: from the dripping of water to a bullet's path. His experiments with stroboscopic flashes resulted in hundreds of --and not incidentally beautiful--images of a realm beyond human vision. Edgerton, a lifelong teacher and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is today celebrated as both a scientific innovator, and also as an astonishing photographer. Seeing the Unseenis an engaging new study of Edgertons's life and science. Designed to look like one of Doc's own laboratory notebooks, the book…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 12/7/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 106
Size: 10.50" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Joyce Bedi is Senior Historian at the Smithsonian Institution's Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.