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Velocity of light demonstration, MIT open house (Cambridge, MA) - 1957
Major collection: Science & Technology
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: color slide
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT
Date made: 1988-02
Materials: 35mm film; cardboard
Site location: Cambridge, MA
Measurements: 2" x 2"
HEE-SC-00256
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: color slide
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT
Date made: 1988-02
Materials: 35mm film; cardboard
Site location: Cambridge, MA
Measurements: 2" x 2"
Square of light at the end of a dark hallway at MIT, an element in a velocity of light demonstration in 1957. DUPLICATE (CC)
HEE-SC-00256
