Future Feeder carries a piece on the work of MIT’s Harold E. “Doc” Edgerton. Best known for his 1964 photograph of a bullet piercing an apple, by that point Edgerton’s work with stroboscopic photography had led the Atomic Energy Commission to hire him to take high speed photographs of nuclear fireballs. In order to record such photographs, Edgerton’s firm EG&G would wind up building nuclear triggers and eventually became the prime contractor of the Nevada Test Site.
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Future Feeder carries a piece on the work of MIT’s Harold E. “Doc” Edgerton. Best known for his 1964 photograph of a bullet piercing an apple, by that point Edgerton’s work with stroboscopic photography had led the Atomic Energy Commission to hire him to take high speed photographs of nuclear fireballs. In order to record such photographs, Edgerton’s firm EG&G would wind up building nuclear triggers and eventually became the prime contractor of the Nevada Test Site.
Technorati Tags: cold war, american west