"Speed Light" stroboscope

Object summary

Title: "Speed Light" stroboscope
Object ID: 2017.025.004
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
Maker: Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier, Inc.
Object type: Stroboscope
Major collection: Technology
On view: No

Description

This object consists of a rectangular wooden box with an electrical cord coming out of the top. Also on the top of the box is a half-pipe piece of silver metal acting as a metal reflector with a plastic cover in it. There is a switch on one side of the reflector, and a dial on the other.

This is likely a prototype version of the Speed Light flash, and it was used in the MIT Stroboscopic Laboratory at MIT.

Inscriptions

Type: sticker
Location: top of instrument
Method: red sticker label
Text: 100,000 PCO 15 mico.sec.

Type: inscription
Location: top of instrument
Method: etched into wood
Text: Strobe Lab / 4-405 MIT

Related organizations

Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier, Inc.

Maker