Flashes Of Inspiration: The Work Of Harold Edgerton

The MIT legend who was dedicated to making the invisible visible. The world knew him for his splashing milk-drop, scientists were indebted to him for giving them a window on the invisible, generations of MIT students looked to him for inspiration, but there?s so much more to learn about the man everybody called "Doc." Flashes of Inspiration explores the extraordinary ingenuity of Harold Edgerton through historic photographs, artifacts (including his cameras and lamps), and reproductions from his laboratory notebooks. The materials of the exhibition are drawn from the MIT Museum and the Institute Archives and Special Collections. The exhibition also features interactive displays that allow visitors to stop time, as Doc did, with a stroboscopic flash, or explore in greater depth the man and his photographs. For more information, visit the Edgerton Center at MIT, which includes links to a video of Edgerton in action and to Strobe Alley

Category: arts/music/film: exhibits
arts/music/film: films/movies
lectures/conferences: science/engineering

Location: N52-200 MIT Museum Main Gallery

Sponsored by: MIT Museum

Admission: see the MIT Museum website
Open to the public

For more information:
Contact Beth Nakamura
617-258-9109
museum@mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/museum/about/news/fall07.html#Hybrid