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Ian Grant said:

Strobe is the US slang shortening of Stroboscope which isn't the same as a normal flash unit, it's what you have at discos etc, pulsed flashes at a variable rate.

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jnanian said:

completely right ian !
flash is totally different, but unfortunately it's become american slang ...
i have a strobascope light i bought from radio shack in the 1980s, i was able to make my turntable
look like it was going backwards and i used to have a foam crockadile on a wire i'd have dance for people
while wearing a king vitamin crown. the dancing crock was named clarence.
stroboscopic light ( strobe for short ) as in the b-52's song "strobe light"
thanks for the memories !

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Prof_Pixel said:

Actually, I believe the term 'strobe' DOES come from the stroboscope. Read about Harold Edgerton, and his highspeed photography work (starting with stroboscopes) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Eugene_Edgerton

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Prof_Pixel said:

Actually, I believe the term 'strobe' DOES come from the stroboscope. Read about Harold Edgerton, and his highspeed photography work (starting with stroboscopes) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Eugene_Edgerton

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Prof_Pixel said:

My first electronic flash was an early Heiland Strobonar in 1955. http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Strobonar

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