Schliever photograph of a .22 calibre bullet above a flame
Photograph
1975 (photographed)
1975 (photographed)
| Artist/Maker |
Image of a .22 calibre bullet above a flame
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Schliever photograph of a .22 calibre bullet above a flame (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | C-type print |
| Brief description | Schliever photograph of a .22 calibre bullet above a flame, C-type print photographed by Harold Edgerton, 1975 |
| Physical description | Image of a .22 calibre bullet above a flame |
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| Credit line | Given by the artist. Copyright Harold & Esther Edgerton Foundation, 2002, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc. |
| Object history | Harold Edgerton was an electrical engineer and began to take photographs as scientific experiments. In his first, he tried to produce a perfect coronet from a single drop of milk falling into liquid. To do this he invented the stroboscope - a device to produce short bursts of light. This allowed him to take split-second pictures of objects in motion which could not be seen by the human eye, including bullets and hummingbirds in flight, light bulbs shattering, and athletes in action. Some of his photographs had an exposure time of less than 1/10,000 of a second. |
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| Accession number | PH.232-1982 |
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| Record created | August 5, 2003 |
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