Harold Edgerton

Untitled (Water wheel)

1939

Rusty metal gear teeth rotating while water splashes and droplets fly from the mechanism.
Rusty metal gear teeth rotating while water splashes and droplets fly from the mechanism.

Harold Edgerton, Untitled (Water wheel), 1939. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 3 9/16 × 4 15/16 in. (9 × 12.5 cm) Image: 3 1/8 × 4 1/2 in. (7.9 × 11.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation 96.117.100. © 2010 MIT. Courtesy of MIT Museum.

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Not on view

Date
1939

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 3 9/16 × 4 15/16 in. (9 × 12.5 cm) Image: 3 1/8 × 4 1/2 in. (7.9 × 11.4 cm)

Accession number
96.117.100

Edition
Vintage

Credit line
Gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

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

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