The photo is remarkable because it is of a bullet, and was made long before high-speed photography made such images relatively easy. The image was created using a shadowgraph.
This photo was taken by physicist Ernst Mach in 1888 in Prague, using Schlieren Photography on a 5 mm-diameter negative. It depicts the waves around a supersonic brass bullet.
This photo was taken by physicist Ernst Mach in 1888 in Prague, using Schlieren Photography on a 5 mm-diameter negative. It depicts the waves around a supersonic brass bullet.