Just a bullet flying through a lemon, no big deal. From a new exhibition of early scientific photographs at the Science Museum, London.
This is a photo of a baton falling, taken at a rate of 60 flashes per second, in 1953.
Harold Edgerton, MIT, 2015, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc.
Here's a photo series of a splash happening in 1905.
Arthur Clive Banfield / National Media Museum
A bullet going through a lemon in 1955, because why not.
Color Harold Edgerton, MIT, 2015, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc.
This photo of the Orion Nebula was taken in 1875.
Andrew Ainslie Common © National Media Museum, Bradford / SSPL
