The life of Harold Edgerton

Autumn Montgomery

“Gus Solomons” 1987

Bobby Jones (High-Speed Photography) – 1938

Pete Desjardin Diving - 1940

Bullet through Bubble filled with Helium- 1987

Bullet through a Jack

Jumping Girl- 1940

Edgerton in His Lab- 1942

Biographical Information

• Born in Freemont, Nebraska April 6th, 1903• Grew up in Aurora, Nebraska• Graduated from the University of Nebraska at

Lincoln • Married Esther May Garrett in 1928.

Training, Career, and Achievements

• Edgerton went to MIT • “Father of Modern Photography”• Invented a Flash Machine to capture high

speed photography. • National Geographic wrote “Doc Edgerton:

The Man who made Time stand Still”

Sources

• http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/ • http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/edge

rtonexhibit/harolddocedgertonindex.html

• http://www.edgerton.org/