Harold Edgerton’s Amazing Images
To accompany our new biography of Harold “Doc” Edgerton, we’ve gathered some samples of his amazing high-speed and strobe light photography.
Posts tagged: Inventors
Douglas Engelbart Dead: Awesome Inventor of the Mouse
The super-brainiac from Portland, Oregon who invented the computer mouse has passed on at age 88.
Couch Potatoes in Mourning: Eugene Polley, Inventor of TV Remote, Dead at Age 96
It was 1955 when he created the wireless gadget that made couch potatoes bloom.
Marie Curie Finger Puppet Biography
A fact-filled video about “superhero” Marie Curie, with finger puppets.
Marshall Amps Founder Dies at Age 88
Jim Marshall, the man behind rock music’s biggest, loudest amplifiers, has died at the age of 88.
Rubik’s Cubes in Everyday Life
Today I saw an example of another use for the toy cube created by Hungarian inventor Erno Rubik. This time it was a chest of drawers, one of the more clever variations, as you can see by some of the other Rubik-inspired creations out there.