It's wild indeed. Maybe even wilder is that a camera capable of taking on million frames per second was developed in 1940. It was called the Repatronic camera [

It's wild indeed. Maybe even wilder is that a camera capable of taking on million frames per second was developed in 1940. It was called the Repatronic camera [1],[2]. I can't provide a link, but I read in the book "Dark Sun" by Richard Rhodes that they had a 3.5 million frames per second camera when they detonated the first thermonuclear bomb, Ivy Mike, in 1952. I found in a different place that the guy who built this camera was a certain Berlyn Brixner. The wikipidia page for Berlyn Brixner [3] does not mention this detail, unfortunately. [1] https://www.nnss.gov/docs/fact_sheets/DOENV_1136.pdf https://www.nnss.gov/docs/fact_sheets/DOENV_1136.pdf [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlyn_Brixner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlyn_Brixner