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Early years. He grew up in Aurora, Nebraska and attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After graduating, he married Esther Garret in 1928. During their marriage they had ...
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Harold Edgerton (1903-1990), American electrical engineer. Harold Eugene Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska. He is best known for his development (about 1931) of the modern high-speed electronic stroboscope. Edgerton pursued and developed the application of his device in a wide range of fields, extending from slow-motion photography to production testing to sonar research.

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