Imaging recource: The father of the flash: Tracing the modern flash back to its scientific beginnings

    A few years ago, BBC Future wrote a feature about Harold Eugene Edgerton, a longtime electrical engineering professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and pioneer of flash photography. A post on Reddit about Edgerton recently appeared, so it feels like a great time to take a look back at his work and the lasting influence he had. Edgerton was born in Nebraska in 1903. Early in his education, he began using an electronic flash to capture images of everyday objects. His photographic work didn’t garner much attention until...
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