Harold Edgerton's unique contribution to strobe technology was not the invention of the strobe itself, but his exceptional artistic eye for composition and photography.

“Edgerton isn't the first to make a strobe. Rather he took new bits of technology that existed so he could make a better strobe. A strobe that was brighter, shorter flash duration. But he was not unique in that. There were lots of electrical engineers in the world at that time who could have done tha”

Giordano Bruno was a monk who was martyred for proposing the revolutionary idea that the stars were suns like our own with planets and life.

“He had just read Copernicus' De Revolutionibus, which puts the sun back in the I say back because the Greeks knew this, but they got lost in the Dark Ages. But the sun back in the middle of the known universe. Okay. He, religious man, God-fearing man, said, hmm, If the Sun is in the middle and not E”

The discovery of electricity is one of the most important inventions in human history.

“I really do think that that that the sort of discovery of electricity is by quite a long stretch the thing that has changed the world more than any other invention perhaps since, you know, fire, right?”