H A R O L D E U G E N E E D G E R T O N 1 9 0 3 – 1 9 9 0 {draw:frame} Harold Eugene Edgerton, one of the most brilliant minds of America, was born on April 6th 1903 in Fremont, Nebraska. Edgerton was most likely not the inventor of the flash(William Henry Fox Talbot in 1859 captured the first photograph using a strobe, and in the 20’s two French brothers , Laurent and Augustin Seguin, patented in Europe and in the US a machine that produced flash) but the person who definitely made it popular, affordable and who revolutionized the world of photography and marine archeology as well. His images captured a new world that until that time remained completely unrevealed and made it understandable to everyone. Best known for the amazing photographs he took as the drop of milk exploding into a crown, a bullet passing through an apple, the toe of a boot embedded deep inside of a football while kicking it and for his inventions, Edgerton liked to describe himself first and foremost as a teacher. He dedicated many decades of his life teaching some of the most popular classes at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MTI) and making key contributions to a wide variety of fields, earning dozens of awards, the respect and recognition of thousands of people. {draw:frame} {draw:frame} Around 1931 as many believe Edgerton’s first commercial strobe was invented, but it wasn’t until summer of 1933 that he was determined to introduce his invention to every single company and to make it popular. During a long family trip from Massachusetts to Nebraska with his wife Esther and his first child, Marie Louise, Edgerton took his invention with him, a 60 pound machine equipped a with a mercury-filled tube and presented it to many factories situated along the way; one of them was the General Motors Research Lab in Detroit. That particular day Edgerton sold a dozen of strobes. He would take his machine, point at the offending gear or spring and synchronize the flash with the motor...