Dynamite Cap Explosion

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Dynamite Cap 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
1956
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
f02ad681-c95d-4f0d-97f9-252ee4dffd94

A multiflash photograph of a dynamite cap explosion in 0.1 m/s exposure. The dynamite's detonator was encased in a steel tube to protect the field lens and spark-light source that silhouettes the explosion and makes the shock wave visible.

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