Fan and Smoke Vortices

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Fan and Smoke Vortices
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Fan and Smoke Vortices

Date1934
Artist (American scientist and photographer, 1903–1990)
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 16 1/16 x 19 15/16 in. (40.8 x 50.6 cm)
sheet: 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, 1996
Object number1996-38
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
Label TextIn 1934, Edgerton exhibited this photograph at the Royal Photographic Society in London, where he and his collaborators—former students Herbert E. Grier and Kenneth J. Germeshausen—were awarded a bronze medal. This early photograph captures the spiraling vortices of smoke caused by whirling fan blades.
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
before 1952
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1942
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1952
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1934
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1936
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1936
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1957, printed 1985
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1938, printed 1985
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1973, printed 1985
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1965, printed 1985
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1964, printed 1985