Quote of the day
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
Harold Eugene Edgerton

Born: April 6, 1903
Died: January 4, 1990 (aged 86)
Bio: Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton also known as Papa Flash was 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.
Known for:
- Electronic flash, strobe (1970)
- Sonar images (1986)