Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton
Born on the 6th of April, 1903, in Nebraska State's Fremont city, Harold E. Edgerton was the eldest child of Mary and Frank Edgerton. Harold was raised in Nebraska's Aurora city; in his youth, he was fascinated with machines and motors, and loved dismantling broken items, deducing their workings, and repairing them. He graduated from the Nebraska-Lincoln University in 1925. In the year 1928, he got married to Esther Garret, with whom he had three children: a daughter, Mary Lou, and two sons, William and Robert. Edgerton was an electrical engineering professor at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and is recognized by many as the scientist who transformed the little-known lab instrument, the stroboscope, into a device commonly used in all cameras. In 1927, Edgerton obtained his Master's degree from MIT, and in 1931, in his doctoral thesis, he studied synchronous motors by employing stroboscopes. He claims that his inspiration for applying stroboscopes to ordinary objects was Charles Stark Draper. Edgerton's first experiment was a jet of water gushing out from a tap. Edgerton was a strobe photography pioneer. He utilized the technique for capturing pictures of bursting balloons and bullets, impacting apples. The Rapatronic camera's invention is ascribed to Edgerton. In 1934, he received a Royal Photographic Society bronze medal, and in 1973, he received the National Medal of Science (Harold Edgerton; Docs life).
Harold's interest in photography came from Ralph Edgerton, his studio-photographer uncle, from whom he learnt how photographs are taken, developed, and printed. Edgerton did summer jobs (floor-sweeping, line-repairing, etc.) at the Nebraska Power and Light Company. He enjoyed his jobs, claiming that they were immensely challenging everyday tasks. Subsequent to graduation, he worked for a year, in the research division at the Schenectady branch (then headquarters) of General Electric. It was here that he first saw a stroboscope, while examining the huge electric motors employed in generating power (Docs life, 1903-1926).
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