FREEZING TIME: EARLY EXAMPLES OF HIGH-SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY

There were numerous high speed photographic systems developed between the 1890′s and the 1930′s. Systems were developed in Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Japan, and Sweden, as well as the United States.

There were several advances in the early 1930′s. Dr. Harold Edgerton developed the Stroboscopic Flash System, which provided extremely short duration light sources to stop action and give a detailed look at sequential events. This system was used in conjunction with still photographic equipment to produce a series of photographs superimposed on the same negative.