Hologram
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- OBJECT TYPE
- reflection/silver halide/framed
- DATE
- 1985–1987
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1987.2598.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Lasergruppen Holovision AB
- MODEL
- Emmett Leith
- LOCATION
- Stockholm, Sweden
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- glass hologram/ aluminum frame/ cardboard backing
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 40.6 cm
- Width
- 30.5 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- 1.2 cm
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Physics
- Category
- Light & electromagnetic radiation
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Laser
- Country
- Sweden
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Stockholm
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- late 1980s
- Canada
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Swedish made hologram collected for the exhibit "Images in Time & Space" mounted by the Associates of Science & Technology (AST) & the National Museum of Science & Technology (of Canada) circa 1988-1989. - Function
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A medium which presents a three dimensional image, in this case a portrait of Emmett Leith, a pioneering holographer. - Technical
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An example of a reflection type hologram, designed to be lit from the front to reveal the image. This was made using a ruby krypton laser. It is a portrait of Emmett Leith of the University of Michigan, who with Juris Upatnieks in 1962 developed the off-axis technique of hologram production still in use & the first laser transmission hologram (Ref. 1). The theory of holography was developed in 1947 by British/Hungarian scientist Dr. Dennis Gabor while working to improve the resolution of electron microscopes. In 1960 the laser was invented and its pure white light was ideal for holography. In 1962 Leith and Upatnieks combined Gabor's theory with their own work in side-reading radar and applied it to holography, resulting in the off-axis technique & the first laser transmission hologram. Also in 1962 Dr. Yuri N. Denisyuk of the U.S.S.R combined holography with Gabriel Lippmann's work in natural colour photography to produce a white-light reflection hologram which, for the first time, could be viewed in light from an ordinary incandescent light bulb. By 1965 Leith, Upatnieks & other U.S. researchers had developed off-axis reflection holograms (Ref. 1) - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- label on back reads "LASERGRUPPEN/ HOLOVISION AB/ Osthammarsgatan/ S-115 28 STOCKHOLM/ [telephone] 08-63 99 08"
- Missing
- appears complete
- Finish
- dark glass/ silver coloured frame/ white cardboard
- Decoration
- N/A
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Lasergruppen Holovision AB, Hologram, between 1985–1987, Artifact no. 1987.2598, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1987.2598.001/
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