Harold Eugene Edgerton
Photographer, Visual Artist
1903 – 1990
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Who was Harold Eugene Edgerton?
Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. He also was deeply involved with the development of sonar and deep-sea photography, and his equipment was used by Jacques Cousteau in searches for shipwrecks and even the Loch Ness monster.
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- Born
- Apr 6, 1903
Aurora - Also known as
- Doc Edgerton
- Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton
- Harold Edgerton
- Spouses
- Esther Garret
(1928 - )
- Esther Garret
- Profession
- Education
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- Nebraska
- Died
- Jan 4, 1990
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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