Harold Edgerton氏、完全版Harold Eugene Edgerton氏（1903年4月6日生まれ、米国ネブラスカ州フリーモント、1990年1月4日死去、マサチューセッツ州ケンブリッジ）、アメリカ人の電気エンジニアであり、彼が高速写真技術を生み出したことで知られる写真家科学的用途に適用されます。
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Edgertonは1925年にネブラスカ大学で電気工学の学士号を取得し、ケンブリッジのマサチューセッツ工科大学（MIT）で同じ分野の修士号（1927年）と博士号（1931年）を取得しています。彼は1928年からMITで教え、1948年に完全な教授になりました。
In 1926, as a graduate student, Edgerton began to experiment with flash tubes. He developed a tube using xenon gas that could produce high-intensity bursts of light as short as 1/1,000,000 second. Edgerton’s tube remains the basic flash device used in still photography. The xenon flash could also emit repeated bursts of light at regular and very brief intervals and was thus an ideal stroboscope. With his new flash Edgerton was able to photograph the action of such things as drops of milk falling into a saucer, a tennis racket hitting a ball, and bullets hitting a steel plate or traveling at speeds of up to 2,800 feet (853 metres) per second. The resulting images often possessed artistic beauty in addition to their value to industry and science.
Edgerton explored many uses for his new photographic equipment. During World War II he constructed stroboscopic units to photograph the night operations of enemy troops. After the war he and his associates photographed nuclear test explosions. He later devised methods and equipment to photograph sea life at unprecedented depths.
