Doc Edgerton stroboscope and EG&G founding

Parallel case to MMT origin. GE funded Edgerton's stroboscope research at MIT, didn't see commercial value, let him keep the IP; Edgerton became wealthy, founded EG&G, funded the Boston Science Museum. Tom uses the parallel to set up the US Steel / Nagel handoff at §2.p6.

This ties into Steve Eilens' [Lipson's?] lectures. Those types of things happen from time to time. Does anybody know the Doc Edgerton story? Who's Doc Edgerton, first of all? You go on the fourth floor of building four here, and there's the Edgerton Center. When I was a student, Doc Edgerton was this semi-billionaire electrical engineering professor that all the students loved. Doc had come to MIT around 1928 from Nebraska, and he was on the faculty in electrical engineering, and he had a contract from General Electric to study motors. He wanted to understand the dynamics of motors while they were actually operating and spinning. So he conceived of the stroboscope — he invented the stroboscope.