Flash Man
Fall 1997
| Volume 13
| Issue 2
I KNEW HAROLD EDGERTON (“THE MAN Who Stopped Time,” by Joyce E. Bedi, Summer 1997) very well, beginning in my days as a graduate student at MIT in the late 1930s. While his fascination with high-speed photography led him to many unusual endeavors, such as a fruitful collaboration with Jacques Cousteau in undersea exploration, the most extraordinary was that of setting off all the atomic and hydrogen bombs the United States tested. His partnership, Edgerton Germeshausen & Grier, supplied all the timing signals for the experiments that surrounded the tests, including the one that detonated the bomb, and their photography constituted a very large part of the data collected.
Stuart T. Martin
President, WCAX-TV
Burlington, Vt.
