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Doc Edgerton Films

See films created by Harold E. "Doc" Edgerton (1903-1990), Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT and pioneer in stroboscopic photography.


Collection videos

Mousetrap and pencil

Mousetrap and pencil

Added 1 year ago | 00:00:40 | 996 views

Harold 'Doc' Edgerton, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the CALYPSO crew, 1954

Harold 'Doc' Edgerton, Jacques-Yves...

Added 1 year ago | 00:01:50 | 464 views

Deploying deep-water camera equipment for an oceanographic research project in the Mediterranean sponsored by the National Geographic Society.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau testing Harold 'Doc' Edgerton's camera, 1952

Jacques-Yves Cousteau testing Harol...

Added 1 year ago | 00:00:57 | 641 views

Jacques-Yves Cousteau testing Harold 'Doc' Edgerton's underwater camera and flash in the MIT Pool, 1952.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Harold 'Doc' Edgerton" on board CALYPSO, 1954

Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Harold 'D...

Added 1 year ago | 00:00:52 | 545 views

Gearing up for scuba-diving survey on their second collaborative Mediterranean research expedition, accompanied by Cousteau's young son Philippe and Edgerton's eldest son Bill.

The Life and Works of Doc Edgerton

The Life and Works of Doc Edgerton

Added 1 year ago | 00:43:58 | 1124 views

Institute Professor, Harold "Doc" Edgerton revolutionized photography with his high speed strobe lighting techniques. He came to MIT as a student in 1926. By the time of his passing in 1990 he had profoundly affected MIT and the world w...

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Genre
Education
Language
English

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