Yucca Flat 8-31-57

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Yucca Flat 8-31-57

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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
Getty Museum
Object ID
69beb5fe-12ad-4086-bb8f-bef70de05f8e

A nuclear bomb explosion fired from a 700-foot tower flat at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), now known as the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).

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