Tuesday, April 24, 2007

INVENTION CORNER

Holography





Holography dates from 1947, when British/Hungarian scientist Dennis Gabor developed the theory of holography while working to improve the resolution of an electron microscope. Gabor, who characterized his work as "an experiment in serendipity" that was "begun too soon", coined the term hologram from the Greek words holos, meaning "whole", and gramma, meaning "message".

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