Mirror | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-27

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror


00:01:02 1 Types of glass mirrors
00:03:13 2 Effects
00:03:22 2.1 Shape of a mirror's surface
00:05:05 2.2 Mirror image
00:07:32 3 History
00:16:50 4 Manufacturing
00:21:49 4.1 Tolerances
00:22:40 4.1.1 Reflectivity
00:24:53 4.1.2 Surface quality
00:26:19 4.1.3 Surface roughness
00:27:33 4.1.4 Transmissivity
00:28:47 4.1.5 Wedge
00:29:47 4.1.6 Surface defects
00:30:55 5 Applications
00:31:04 5.1 Personal grooming
00:31:30 5.2 Safety and easier viewing
00:32:51 5.3 One-way mirrors and windows
00:33:41 5.4 Signalling
00:34:22 5.5 Technology
00:34:31 5.5.1 Televisions and projectors
00:35:51 5.5.2 Solar power
00:36:10 5.5.3 Instruments
00:39:11 5.5.3.1 Face-to-face mirrors
00:39:42 5.5.4 Military applications
00:40:42 5.5.5 Seasonal lighting
00:41:27 5.6 Architecture
00:42:50 5.7 Fine art
00:42:58 5.7.1 Paintings
00:45:10 5.7.2 Sculpture
00:45:41 5.7.3 Other artistic mediums
00:46:29 5.7.4 Religious Function of the real and depicted mirror
00:49:00 5.8 Decoration
00:50:04 5.9 Entertainment
00:51:01 5.10 Film and television
00:51:45 5.11 Literature
00:54:45 6 Mirrors and animals
00:55:40 7 Unusual kinds of mirrors



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SUMMARY
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A mirror is an object that reflects light in such a way that, for incident light in some range of wavelengths, the reflected light preserves many or most of the detailed physical characteristics of the original light, called specular reflection. This is different from other light-reflecting objects that do not preserve much of the original wave signal other than color and diffuse reflected light, such as flat-white paint.
The most familiar type of mirror is the plane mirror, which has a flat surface. Curved mirrors are also used, to produce magnified or diminished images or focus light or simply distort the reflected image.
Mirrors are commonly used for personal grooming or admiring oneself (where they are also called looking-glasses), for viewing the area behind and on the sides on motor vehicles while driving, for decoration, and architecture. Mirrors are also used in scientific apparatus such as telescopes and lasers, cameras, and industrial machinery. Most mirrors are designed for visible light; however, mirrors designed for other wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation are also used.