Hands flipping a chain of spinning tops arcing across a table surface.

Harold Edgerton

Untitled (Gyroscope)

c. 1940

Not on view

122 works in the collection
6 exhibitions
View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/10838

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 × 10 1/8 in. (20.3 × 25.7 cm) Image: 7 9/16 × 9 3/4 in. (19.2 × 24.8 cm)

Accession number
96.117.37

Credit line
Gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© 2010 MIT. Courtesy of MIT Museum.

API
artworks/10838

Part of a series:
Untitled
102 works

Row of metal nozzles releasing a diagonal trail of falling water droplets against a dark background.
Bullet piercing a thin membrane, leaving curved shock lines and a trailing cloud.
A bullet pierces a soap bubble on a vertical stand, spraying droplets to the right.
A series of overlapping exposures showing an owl flapping and gliding through the air.
A bullet slices through a king playing card, sending paper fragments and dust into the air.
King of diamonds playing card being shot through by a speeding bullet, tearing the card apart.
Acrobats perform multiple airborne somersaults over a trampoline in front of a seated audience.
Multiple trapeze artists perform mid-air flips above a crowded circus audience.
A troupe of acrobats in yellow costumes performing aerial flips and forming a human tower above the ring.
Several athletes perform pole vaulting and flips over poles in front of a seated audience.

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