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photo:Aerial views of the Stonehenge Ruins, 1944, Vintage silver gelatin print
© Harold Edgerton Archive, MIT. Courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery
Force to design a strobe lamp strong
enough to allow nighttime aerial
photography of enemy activities on
the ground. Gus explains ‘Doc was
contacted at the beginning of WWII
by Major George Goddard at Wright
A scientist first and foremost,
Edgerton was pivotal in developing early aerial and oceanic reconnaissance. Edgerton’s research for
the military began in 1939 when
he was asked by the US Army Air
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