![Bullet through the Apple, 1964](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912164133im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/12/1402576319997/60eb4092-163d-4871-bfba-9a3b4ab466e9-620x482.jpeg)
![Pancho Gonzales Serves, 1949.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912164133im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/12/1402572416536/80fc9e73-7249-4137-8841-430464efa9ed-620x478.jpeg)
![Dropping an egg into a Fan!, 1940. Best & HEE, MGM Academy Award Quicker 'n a Wink.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912164133im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/12/1402574131977/f01ef6a0-c8d4-48ae-86b0-538f08c84708-620x482.jpeg)
![Best & HEE, MGM Academy Award Quicker 'n a Wink, 1940.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912164133im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/12/1402575852272/d8132edb-b36c-4751-98c2-c84e2c4f024c-620x409.jpeg)
![Cows and Flare at Stonehenge Ruins, 1944.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912164133im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/12/1402576129654/9e7f6b23-fcdf-4f04-bb84-65d1bebc063f-620x494.jpeg)
![Bubble Through a Helium Bubble ,1971.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912164133im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/12/1402576014702/a169b548-aeb6-4fe2-9255-ad9049fb6502-404x480.jpeg)
![Child's Catapult, 1975.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912164133im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/12/1402576551579/da92c176-8138-44f4-8e75-9cb67547f3fc-620x492.jpeg)
![Bubble Chamber, 1967.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912164133im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/12/1402575954720/8cfe2e0a-5880-48a2-b10b-55d2758ae414-376x480.jpeg)
![Rex Taylor cracking the whip, 1965.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912164133im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/12/1402576613942/93dd98fd-1a5e-45c2-bb9a-a72434fe8c60-460x276.jpeg)
![Pete Desjardin Diving, 1940.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912164133im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/12/1402576350739/c69eb5b3-859e-4693-98b8-41a536b7438a-344x480.jpeg)
![Bullet Through Plexiglass, 1962.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912164133im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/12/1402576462777/e407e4de-3fd6-42db-846f-3d9270e054a8-403x480.jpeg)
![Foil Salute, 1938.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912164133im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/12/1402576263824/a5e8e749-79f2-411d-bfea-27aa23623490-379x480.jpeg)
![Aerial views of the Stonehenge Ruins, 1944.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912164133im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/12/1402575919566/3be84ebb-cd21-4902-9531-f3945385194e-455x480.jpeg)
![Fire Cracker, 1975.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912164133im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/12/1402576758781/ec32a26e-b71b-4991-861c-384fac5f870b-460x370.jpeg)
If you could stop time, here is what you might see: a bullet being shot through an apple, an egg being cracked into a fan, or a play-by-play of Pancho Gonzales's famous serve. MIT professor Harold Edgerton invented the strobe flash in the 1930s – and his stroboscopic photography captured amazing moments that would otherwise be missed in the blink of an eye
• Dr Harold Edgerton: Abstractions is at Michael Hoppen Gallery in London until 2 August
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