MIT Museum

Exhibition: Visionary Engineer, Harold Edgerton

Visionary Engineer, Harold Edgerton, showcases the new digital collections that include many photographs from the MIT Museum's now closed Flashes of Inspiration exhibition, as well as thousands of other still and moving images. The exhibit's goal is to reintroduce Professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton to the public at the MIT Museum, and to make known this valuable synthesis of the many digital archives currently located throughout the MIT campus. Opened November 14, 2009; closed September 12, 2011.

Please see http://web.mit.edu/museum/about/pr/2009/visionary.html for more information on this exhibit

Related Objects

Camera, type A-5a, with Raytheon control box, type D-5 IN-1596 Fairchild Aviation Corporation 1940s View	Prototype of Strobotac flash IN-1599 General Radio Company circa 1939 View	Strobotron tube, type 1D21/SN4 IN-1706 Sylvania date unknown View
Rapatronic camera with magneto-optic shutter, type CA-1 IN-2410 Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier, Inc. date unknown View	High speed 35mm motion picture camera IN-2411 date unknown c. 1939 View	Mazda FT-17-40 quartz/xenon flash lamp 1983.088.052 View
First mercury strobe lamp made at MIT 1983.088.054 date unknown View	Voightlander camera 1987.030.002 date unknown View	Sonargraph - Tom Lamb, Harold E. Edgerton at EG&G display, 1962 HEE-SC-00430 Edgerton, Harold Eugene 1962-04 View
Archaeological sonar survey, Yucatán (Mexico) - Harold E. Edgerton, 1975 HEE-SC-06585 Edgerton, Harold Eugene 1975-08 View	Archaeological sonar survey, Yucatán (Mexico) - Harold E. Edgerton, Pilar Luna, 1975 HEE-SC-06586 Edgerton, Harold Eugene 1975-07 View	Sonar survey, Venice (Italy) - Harold E. Edgerton, Antonio Stefanon, 1985 HEE-SC-08584 Edgerton, Harold Eugene 1985-03- View