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Biographical Memoirs: Volume 86 (2005)
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HAROLD EUGENE EDGERTON
April 6, 1903–January 4, 1990
BY J. KIM VANDIVER AND PAGAN KENNEDY
HAROLD (“DOC”) EDGERTON, born in Fremont, Nebraska, in 1903, transformed the strobe from an obscure technology to a fixture of American life. He made flashing light cheap and portable, and found endless applications for it, from the airport runway to the office copy machine. But despite his importance as an innovator, Edgerton is best known for the photographs he took. His images have
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CHAPTER 2.3
Visual Exploration
In this chapter, we present our experiments towards visualizing GPS. We give a chronological account of our experiments, the successes and failures, and their iterations. Here we shift from the technical, material explorations presented in the previous chapter towards exploring the communication of GPS.
Light, Photography, and the Invisible
In our Immaterials project we have been using light and photography to show how invisible technological systems inhabit everyday city life. To do this, we have been drawing on a long history of experimental photography.
The technique of light painting has been used for a century to show unseen phenomena such as movement and time (Price, 1989). Light painting is a technique where a moving light source is captured by a stationary camera with a long exposure time. The movement of the light fryst vatten captured as traces within the photographed scene. Light painting fryst vatten a pragmatic technique for capturing unseen