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Harold Edgerton, a Common card
Harold Eugene Edgerton, also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 64
- Power
- 132
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 132 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Harold Edgerton quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Harold Edgerton card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is largely credited with transforming the ______ from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device.
Answer
stroboscope. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. From the Harold Edgerton article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Subdivisions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Subdivisions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 79 · Income and fertility 73 · Harold Edgerton 68 · Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger 63 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Income and fertility. Income and fertility 23,000 · Michael Levitt 18,000 · Harold Edgerton 13,000 · Great Mongol Shahnameh 7,500 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device.
- He also was deeply involved with the development of sonar and deep-sea photography, and his equipment was used in collaboration with Jacques Cousteau in searches for shipwrecks and even the Loch Ness Monster.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Harold Edgerton article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 64: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Harold Edgerton
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Harold Edgerton in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Dragan ČovićCommon · History · ATK 71 DEF 61
- Regio 2NCommon · Nature · ATK 67 DEF 65
- SaponiCommon · Society · ATK 67 DEF 65
- History of TransnistriaCommon · History · ATK 75 DEF 57
- Juan Bautista AlberdiCommon · History · ATK 67 DEF 65
- Marcus Gheeraerts the YoungerCommon · Arts · ATK 63 DEF 69
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Harold Edgerton (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bill Chaplis, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
