Yucca Flat 9-8-57, 18th of Plumbbob

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Yucca Flat 9-8-57, 18th of Plumbbob

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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
1957
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Object ID
4e5538f2-d1c8-40e0-9dc4-fab3b96ba9e8

A nuclear bomb fireball explosion, a part of a series of nuclear tests referred to as Operation Plumbbob in the Nevada Test Site (NTS) now known as the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).

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