Nevada Proving Ground, Fall 1951

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Nevada Proving Ground, Fall 1951

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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
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Object ID
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A test bomb detonating at the Nevada Proving Ground, now known as the Nevada Nevada Test Site (NTS) and National Security Site (NNSS). An atomic cloud looms over the explosion, a part of the Atomic Energy- Department of Defense test series.

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