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High-speed Schlieren photography, bullet through flame - 1973 © Kim Vandiver and Harold Edgerton
Major collection: Science & Technology
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: color slide
Maker: Vandiver, J(ohn) Kim; Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Place made: United States
Materials: 35mm film; plastic
Measurements: 2" x 2"
HEE-SC-08760
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: color slide
Maker: Vandiver, J(ohn) Kim; Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Place made: United States
Materials: 35mm film; plastic
Measurements: 2" x 2"
High-speed Schlieren method photograph of a bullet moving through a flame, taken in 1973 by Kim Vandiver and Harold E. Edgerton (copy). See Harold E. Edgerton's 1987 "STOPPING TIME", p.139. (CC)
HEE-SC-08760