Description

This camera prototype consists of a General Radio oscillograph recorder attached to a Bodine motor.

Harold Edgerton and Herbert Grier built this camera to photograph an oscilloscope screen. It was obtained by electrical engineering professor Louis Smullin, though he never ended up using it.

Additional Information

History: Charlie Wyckoff, 8/6/1993: "This is kind of a prototype camera right here. This was really, with this extra motor, was built as a camera to photograph an oscilloscope tube. So what we did later on -- Herb Grier designed this camera and built it -- and then later, all of this monkey stuff here was taken off and it was just a single motor put on -- well, this motor here on the bottom was the only thing that was left. We took everything else off and put a commutator on the back of this thing right here, the drum. And that was, every frame had a contact, so that's the one we used in the high-speed [words garbled]"