Massachusetts Institute of Technology / MIT Museum
Building N51 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139
Open Daily 10am – 5pm / Closed Major Holidays
NOTE: Special schedule on Thursday, May 23. See our Hours & Admission page for details.
Visionary Engineer, Harold Edgerton
From underwater photography to filming bullets in action, Harold “Doc” Edgerton was a true pioneer: an educator, inventor, entrepreneur and explorer. Try your hand at his fun and famous "piddler" machine and examine artifacts from his research lab. You’ll see the mercury tube that Doc identified as his first strobe and other objects - some dating to the 2nd century BC, excavated thanks to Edgerton’s underwater photographic techniques. Located behind the Epstein Innovation Gallery (MIT Museum, 1st Floor). Explore the Edgerton Digital Collections (EDC) project- an innovative, collaborative publishing venture that draws from an array of databases to document the history of science and technology and celebrate the spirit of Doc Edgerton.
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Sonar survey, Venice (Italy) - Harold E. Edgerton, Antonio Stefanon, 1985 Harold E. Edgerton in a gondola filled with sonar recording instruments on a canal in Venice, Italy. 
Photo by Nancy Farriss Archaeological sonar survey, Yucatán (Mexico). Harold E. Edgerton hands a postcard of his high-speed milk-drop photograph ("Coronet") to a local, during an archaeological sonar survey project led by Nancy Farriss in Yucatán, Mexico in July 1975. |
