Pentolite Explosion

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Pentolite Explosion

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Harold Edgerton

American Photographer · 1903–1990

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> Don't make me out an artist. I'm an engineer. I'm after the facts. Only the facts. Harold "Doc" Edgerton learned photography from an uncle in Aurora, Nebraska, during his high school years. Setting up a darkroom in his parents' kitchen, Edgerton went to work during the summer for the Nebraska Power and Light Company. In 1925 he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and went to w

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Date
1951
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
07285f4e-be6e-4d5e-a727-39968905f9cb

An explosion of 3/4” square stick of Pentolite, a composite high explosive used for military and civilian purposes, during detonation. This explosion was captured by a microsecond still camera withe an oscillating faraday shutter.

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