Conductron hologram "That's Life (Man and Rock)"
date: label: date made
content: 1970
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A white-light hologram mounted on a blue cardboard backing. Image depicts a Sisyphean figure pushing a large boulder. Provided as a free hand-out during the opening ceremony of the National Museum of History and Technology exhibition “Laser 10”.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Experiments in holography, a three-dimensional extension of photography, took advantage of advances made during WWII. The invention of lasers in 1960, provided a critical breakthrough for holography by providing a strong source of coherent light. Within four years, holograms were being displayed in public. Additional research quickly resulted in holograms that could be seen in ordinary, non-coherent, white light. This hologram was produced and given to guests during the opening event of the exhibition “Laser 10”, demonstrating not only technical sophistication, but also the rapid decrease in cost to make and reproduce holographic images.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2022.0278.11
label: accession number
content: 2022.0278
label: catalog number
content: 2022.0278.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hologram
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: hologram: 5 in x 4 in x in; 12.7 cm x 10.16 cm x .0254 cm
label: Measurements
content: matte: 8 in x 10 in x 1/32 in; 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm x .07938 cm