[Motion Study of Smoke Vortices Caused by Electric Fan]

Harold Edgerton American

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Using a stroboscopic flash to achieve exposures as fast as 1/100,000 of a second, Edgerton revealed aspects of motion and of the structure of the world not visible to the naked eye in real time. Here his apparatus arrested the briefest of exchanges between a wisp of smoke and the blades of an operating electric fan.

[Motion Study of Smoke Vortices Caused by Electric Fan], Harold Edgerton (American, 1903–1990), Gelatin silver print

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