Doc Edgerton

Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton, also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. He also was deeply involved with the development of sonar and deep-sea photography, and his equipment was used in collaboration with Jacques Cousteau in searches for shipwrecks and even the Loch Ness Monster.

6 April 1903

Born on the same birth date (6 April 1903): Mickey Cochrane

Born on the same birth day (6 April): Alfredo Ovando Candía • Anders Thomas Jensen • Angeliki Laiou • Athenagoras I of Constantinople • Billy Dee Williams • Donnie Edwards • Erwin Komenda • Hermann Lang • Jack Cover • Jean-Pierre Changeux • Katie Weatherston • Michaël Ciani • Peter Jackson (footballer, born 1961) • Philip Henry Gosse • Randy Weston • Rodney Bickerstaffe • Roger Cook (journalist) • Valentina (French singer) • Willis Hall

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