Paul Dupont
Stroborama, c. 1925.
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Paul Dupont
Stroborama, c. 1925.
Measurement of the bending of the tip of a propeller blade (photograph to the millionth of a second). Issy-les-Moulineaux wind tunnel.
Vintage silver print. Printed caption "Stroborama type A. Photograph to the millionth of a second of a propeller 1m80 in diameter rotating at 2,400 rpm. Blade tip speed: 226 meters/second" on verso.
17.9 x 12.9 cm
This perfectly still image of a propeller spinning at very high speed illustrates the chronophotographic experiments of the 1920s in Raymond Lecuyer's Histoire de la photographie (1945).
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