Using a stroboscopic flash to achieve exposures as fast as 1/1,000,000 of a second, Edgerton revealed aspects of motion and of the structure of the world not visible to the naked eye in real time. Here he recorded the powerful “splash” as a bullet collides with a steel block.
The speckled green glaze is typical of medieval ceramics from the kilns at Mill Green, about forty miles northeast of London. For about a century, beginning around 1270, potters there created tableware both for local use and for sale in the capital and at other locales within about a forty-mile radius, including Kent, Cambridge, and […]