Drop of Milk
Harold Edgerton
1930s · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

Using a stroboscopic flash to achieve exposures as fast as 1/100,000 of a second, Edgerton revealed aspects of motion and of the structure of the world not visible to the naked eye in real time.
- Artist
- Harold Edgerton
- Date
- 1930s
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
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![[Milk Drop Falling Into Reservoir of Milk (5/9)]](https://d2pvxr3eb77vb4.cloudfront.net/assets/v1/8a/8a58eb3cbf63a5b1d6779d12c393b4c82c6c74e869cc394f24286c4b8a6cf584/graph.webp)


![[Milk Drop Falling Into Reservoir of Milk (6/9)]](https://d2pvxr3eb77vb4.cloudfront.net/assets/v1/db/dbb4449fcb0edd235ecd936e26c6b402d402bb691bbde963e9ee9c44705d1e64/graph.webp)



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![[Milk Drop Falling Into Reservoir of Milk (8/9)]](https://d2pvxr3eb77vb4.cloudfront.net/assets/v1/ce/ce94c87edf0d0f648fbacc16326e55904d24d17e52654d5a15253d59f48fb990/graph.webp)

