Able to photograph a bullet in flight, Harold Eugene “Doc” Edgerton was born in April 6,1903 in Fremont, Nebraska. Harold Edgerton studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where from 1926 to 1931 he (and his associates) developed the modern stroboscope. Edgerton applied his discovery of the modern stroboscope to a wide range of fields. His discovery aided under-water photography and sonar research, photography in nature, and motion pictures. He taught thousands of students at MIT, and he enjoyed every minute of teaching.
Edgerton enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a graduate student, but he remained there for approximately 60 years. At MIT, Doc Edgerton was a professor of electrical engineering. As a graduate student at MIT, Edgerton developed an electric strobe light with which he produced flashes of 1/500,000 second. When the flash is used in a series, the progressive stages of an object in motion can be recorded on the same piece of film. An example of this would be Tennis by Edgerton. Now, flashes are at the speed of a few billionths of a second, this would not have been possible without the work of Doc Edgerton.
The simplest kind of stroboscope is a revolving disk with usually one slit or hole, but sometimes more, in its periphery. These holes enable the observer to view the object. The revolutions of the disc can be synchronized, with the motion of the object. With the precise synchronization, even photographs of bullets in flight can be taken. The photographs are like contemporary motion picture frames.
Not only was the discovery of the modern high-speed stroboscope useful in photography, but also in the field of engineering. The stroboscope could be used to study wear, vibration, and distortion of moving parts while the parts of the machine are being used (the machine is running).
Edgerton was also involved in ocean research. He took a few photographic journeys with his good friend Jacques Cousteau. Cousteau gave Edgerton the nickname “Papa Flash.” Jacques Cousteau, at celebration for the life of Edgerton, said; “He (Edgerton) was the only human being I ever met that met life with as much enthusiasm…He was a perpetual dreamer.
Dr. Kevorkian was mostly known for his role in aiding people in ending their life with assisted suicide. He helped people euthanize themselves that were critically ill. Dr. Kevorkian was often in courts over his actions in assisted suicide. Even thought Dr. Kevorkian was raised in a strict religious home where suicide was a sin (The Biography Channel Website 1). He still continued to help people even though it was frowned upon by his church. The life of Dr. Kevorkian has affected the way people look at assisted suicide.
Richard Allen was enslaved at birth to a family in Philadelphia of a prominent lawyer and officeholder, Benjamin Chew. Allen was sold with his family to Stokely Sturgis, a farmer in Delaware in 1768. In 1777, Allen experienced a religious conversion to Methodist. And then he later purchased his freedom in 1780. Allen was co-founder of the Free African Society in 1787, he helped many during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of Philadelphia in 1793, and he established Mother Bethel’s African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816.
All fields of science affects the lives of many people, but the inventors are left out. Inventors make many lives more comfortable and convenient. George Edward Alcorn, Jr. was a not so well-known inventor, but he...
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4. In the early 1670’s Anton van Leeuwenhook, a Dutch fabric-store owner, began to grind lenses as a hobby. He used handheld microscopes to examine materials such as pond water and blood.
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.... 'It is a moment when the visible escapes from the timeless incorporeal order of the camera obscura and becomes lodged in another apparatus, within the unstable physiology and temporality of the human body'. Crary further demonstrates the shift in vision's location from camera to body by examining the way in which it was reproduced in various optical devices invented during this same period, specifically the stereoscope, the kaleidoscope, the phenakistiscope, and the diorama. His examination is based on a provocative premise: 'There is a tendency to conflate all optical devices in the nineteenth century as equally implicated in a vague collective drive to higher and higher standards of verisimilitude' (110). According to Crary, such an approach tends to neglect entirely how some of these devices were expressions of what he calls 'nonveridical' models of perception.
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The movie camera was developed during the height of his career; sometime referred to as the Kinetoscope, an early motion picture device from the Greek word Kinesis, (CITE). In 1888, Thomas Edison began working on the Kinetoscope. Using the income from his technological inventions, Thomas Edison built the largest and most advanced laboratory at the time in West Orange, New Jersey. Edison and his staff of scientists and skilled craftsmen began working on the Kinetoscope. During the production of the Kinetoscope, Edison attended a lecture in Orange, New Jersey with photographer Edward Muybridge to discuss stop action photographs of animals in motion. Edison later invited Mr. Muybridge to his laboratory where Thomas Edison learned how to create the illusion of still life photos into
Mr. Armstrong used to have a tendency to forget people’s names so he called them pops and was later dubbed the name pops in a biography about his life by...
So Abrams introduced me to an article about a man who changed the film world forever. This man’s name is Garrett Brown and he invented the Steadicam, the Skycam, Flycam, and the Divecam. Now you maybe wondering what are these things? Well, let me give you a little history lesson. Back then, cameras were attached to a chair and the chair would travel on a rail or the camera would move around on a dollie where it was attached to a platform. However, this would take a very long time to build and of course, cost a lot. At the same time, handheld cameras would be all over the place. Garrett thought there has to be a better way to be able to film and move at the same time, so he invented the Steadicam. The Steadicam allows cameramen to follow
When you hear of a great invention that changed the world today you may wonder who the genius that created it is. Well one invention that drew my attention was the Stethoscope. The Stethoscope was invented in 1816 by a French man named Rene Laennec.
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