Bullet through Candle Flame

A professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harold "Doc" Edgerton transformed the field of high-speed photography by linking laboratory strobe lights with camera shutter motors. Edgerton’s photographs made it possible to observe movements too fast for the human eye—a bullet piercing a balloon, the crown-like splash of a drop of milk, an arrow in midflight, or here, the path of a single bullet through the flame of a candle.