History of Science & Technology, Including the Nobel Prize and Papers of Richard P. Feynman

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Lot 65
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[HOLOGRAPHY]. FOUR HOLOGRAMS: BY MCDONNELL DOUGLAS ELECTRONICS COMPANY, 1970-1973

Estimate
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Description

  • Four Holograms: "That's Life," "Marching Band," "New Dimensions in Jet Travel," and "Slalom Skier." St. Charles, Missouri: McDonnell Douglas Electronics Company, 1970-1973
Four image-plane reflection holograms, silver halide emulsion on film (4 x 5 in.), each mounted on cardstock with three identifying labels. Some minor scratches to emulsion, and scattered light discoloration to cardstock. 

Literature

Holographic Visions: A History of New Science, pp. 161-168, 352.

Catalogue Note

A hologram is a photographic recording of a light field, used to display and view a fully three-dimensional image under diffuse ambient light without the aid of any intermediate optics.  McDonnell Douglas was a major aerospace manufacturing and defense contractor that provided air and spacecraft simulators for the Mercury and Gemini manned space programs. Its subsidiary, McDonnell Douglas Electronics Company, housed a pulsed-laser holography laboratory until 1973, when when the corporation decided that the market for holograms was proving too elusive to pursue any further.