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Baton

Major collection: Science & Technology
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: negative
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Date made: 1953
Materials: safety film
Measurements: 8x10"

As a drum majorette twirls a baton, the motions are captured in a multiflash photograph with the flash going off 60 times per second. Taken in 1953. (CC)


HEE-NC-53001

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