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History of Holography

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"You can't predict the future but you can invent it" - Dennis Gabor

Around 1947, Scientist Dennis Gabor developed the theory of holography while working to improve the resolution of an electron microscope.

A holograph is an image made by exposing film to the interference pattern created when two laser light sources shine on an object. Must people think of a holograph as a three-dimensional image of an object.

For his work Dennis Gabor won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1971.

Holovideo - Holograph TV

In 1989, the MIT Spatial Imaging Group created a new visual medium called electro-holography capable of producing realistic 3-D holographic images in real time.
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