TY - JOUR
AU - Killian, Jumes
AB - ,Jack of Hearts. The Jack of ttearts is cut b~ a .3{)-caliber bu!lel. Exposure i~ less thun ~i millionltt ol :l sect nd. : i Edgerton, Jan, Jr. Reprinted by ~rmlsSion of the MIT Pre.~s from Moments of |"i~io~l b~ Harold E. Ed~erto~ and James R, Killian, Jr.. copyright @, 1979 b} the Massachuseits Institme of Technoh)gy. Beyond the time threshold of human vision lies a world of rapid motion which can be seen only with the aid of accessories that manipulate time as the microscope or telescope manipulates space. Harold Edgerton and his associates, Kenneth Germeshausen and Herbert Grief, designed lighting equipment tot providing either a single tlash for taking a single "still'" picture, or a series of flashes with a predetermined interval of time between them for taking multiple-exposure photographs and motion pictures. Edgerton is first and fl~remost a scientist and engineer. When he devised the modern stroboscope, he was not trying to become a photographer: he was trying to find a way to solve an engineering problem. Throughout his career he has invented new photographic systems as tools to solve problems. Edgerton's photographs contain valuable and frequently unique information, or solve problems by providing a vision 
TI - Moments of vision
JO - Society
DO - 10.1007/BF02694809
DA - 2007-08-27
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/moments-of-vision-bMg3tyH0WW
SP - 75
EP - 79
VL - 17
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -