Remembering an artist

100 years ago...

the American electrical engineer and photographer Harold Eugene Edgerton was born on 06.04.1903 in Fremont, Nebr. He studied electrical engineering and began to photograph. He developed the stroboscope (US-patent in 1933) and stroboscope photography. First exhibition of his works 1933 in the Royal Photographic Society London. Cooperation with the Life magazine. Certainly you know his photograph >Apple and Bullet< taken with a speed of 2800 ft/sec. The same with a playing-card. Or this wonderful >Coronet< formed by a falling drop on the surface of milk, all pictures about 1936. 1940 in Hollywood the film >Quicker than a wink< together with Pete Smith. Since 1953 cooperation with the French under water pioneer Jacques Cousteau, etc., etc. You will find more about him in many dictionaries. Edgerton died on 10.01.1990 in Cambridge, Mass.