Harold "Doc" Edgerton Lab Notebook 3
Subtitle: February 15, 1930 - June 16, 1931
By: Harold E. "Doc" Edgerton
Edition: Manuscript
Series: Harold E. Edgerton Research Notebooks
Publisher: MIT
Published: June 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Genres: Laboratory Notebook
Description: Harold "Doc" Edgerton's research activities spanned more than sixty years, and included laboratory work at MIT, equipment testing at General Electric Co., military research and development during World War II, and field work around the world, employing photographic and sonar techniques. This series incorporates the laboratory notebooks HEE maintained at MIT; sonar records and annotated site location maps; blueprints and technical data on equipment development and testing; correspondence, diagrams, reports, and photographs documenting development of aerial surveillance equipment for the Allied war effort; and correspondence and background materials pertaining to other projects and research interests.

The laboratory notebooks illustrate through notes, diagrams, data, and photographs the step-by-step evolution of Doc Edgerton's innovative ideas from inspiration to finished plan or product.
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