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Crew
Major collection: Science & Technology
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: negative
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Date made: 1969
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Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: negative
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Date made: 1969
The camera and multiflash unit, housed in an observation window below the water's surface, illuminated the intense strokes of MIT's crew. The light exposed the oars but left only a ghostly trace of the men powering them. (from "Stopping Time" (1987), p. 116) (CC)
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