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Milk Drop Coronet
''Milk Drop Coronet'' is a High-speed photography, high-speed photograph of a Drop (liquid), drop of milk falling onto the surface of a red pan, creating a splash resembling a coronet, taken by American scientist Doc Edgerton, Harold "Doc" Edgerton on January 10, 1957. The picture was created using a camera connected to a beam of light, which triggered when the drop of milk obstructed the light. Edgerton was an electrical engineer, and had personally developed a stroboscope which he used to take high-speed photographs of, among others, drops of liquid. He began capturing images of milk drops as early as 1932, and produced a similar picture to ''Milk Drop Coronet'' titled ''Milk Drop Coronet Splash'' in 1936. ''Milk Drop Coronet'' has been called an "uncannily beautiful image" by ''The New York Times, New York Times'' art critic Ken Johnson (art critic), Ken Johnson, appeared in Time (magazine), ''Time'' magazine's list of ''Most Influential Images of All Time'', and exhibited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MIT Museum
The MIT Museum, founded in 1971, is part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It hosts collections of holography, technology-related artworks, artificial intelligence, architecture, robotics, maritime history, and the History of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, history of MIT. Its holographic art, holography collection of 1800 pieces is the largest in the world, though only a few selections from it are usually exhibited. , works by the kinetic artist Arthur Ganson were the largest long-running displays; in 2024 they were replaced by a newer art installation, but some of Ganson's works were reinstalled elsewhere in the museum. There is a regular program of temporary special exhibitions, often on the intersection of art and technology. The overall purpose of the MIT Museum is to "turn MIT inside out" by making MIT's work more visible and accessible to the outside world. In addition to serving the MIT community, the museum offers numero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |