Edgerton isn't the first to make a strobe.
Edgerton pulled out some paper, did a few calculations and said: "We can do that."
Edgerton was very inventive and had projects all over the place.
All Edgerton needed was a way to reliably create these flashes.
So Edgerton added a trigger that sent a high voltage pulse through a wire wrapped around the tube and the electric field from that pulse would rip electrons off the gas atoms inside the chamber,
Reggie Edgerton .
And Edgerton 's high speed images, made by very high speed bursts of light from electrically controlled neon tubes, created the illusion of stopped motion.
This was Edgerton 's strobe.
At the Edgerton Center we pushed this as far as it goes with one frame and that's it.
Unlike Harold Edgerton , who uses the strobe light to turn the flight of a bullet into a disconcerting thing of beauty
So one MIT engineer named Harold "Doc' Edgerton , set out to find a solution.
The workers would watch as Edgerton froze the motor in time, allowing them to take sharp pictures of the gears in motion.
You've got Meryl Streep and Joel Edgerton , C.J. and John Tolz as your DP, and you can shoot it in your hometown."
But one day, Edgerton noticed that every time he triggered a power surge, his equipment gave off a bright flash of light.
No, what Edgerton uniquely brought to the table was his eye for photography.
So we're gonna try and recreate one of Edgerton 's photos, popping a balloon and freezing it in time.
Ori Gersht's work simultaneously references old master paintings and Harold Edgerton when, for example, he
I'm delighted to welcome Peter Hedges and Joel Edgerton to Google today, and to talk about their new film which you just saw the trailer for,
but when you sat in the presence of Joel Edgerton and I really felt it when I met him, was so thrilled Disney let me cast him.
So he asked Edgerton whether he could develop a strobe powerful enough to illuminate the ground from a plane that was a mile or so up in the sky.
I have to get a bit more Baz Buhrmann and less Joel Edgerton .
In 1939, a US major named George Goddard walked into Edgerton 's lab unannounced.
It's hard to ignore just how sharp these strobe photos are, especially the ones Edgerton took in the 1930s.
Okay, and now let's do the same with Edgerton 's method.
So here are the two techniques side-by-side, and here's Edgerton 's original as well.
He had a setup that could induce these power surges in a lab, but no matter what he tried, Edgerton just couldn't see what was going on with the motors because the
Now, once Edgerton showed the world how powerful strobe photography was, he attracted some unexpected attention.
So we got a research grade slow-mo camera from 2020 that shoots at 20,000 FPS, and we're gonna compare its quality to Edgerton 's technique by shooting a bullet through a playing card.
Then, most notably, there are all the really beautiful pictures produced by Harold Edgerton in the mid 20th century.