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Description: Novelty glasses, purported to allow users to see through or into solid object. The glasses are really constructed to create an optical illusion. Black plastic frame with cardboard "lenses" printed with red and white circular "hypnotic lines" with a small hole at the center. A feather is embedded between the layers of each lens and light is diffracted through them, causing a viewer to see slightly offset images, which create the optical illusion. "X-ray vision" is printed across the tops of the lenses. Printed instructions on the back read: Hold your hand towards the light. Spread your fingers and see the bones. Accompanied by photocopy of one of the original comic book advertisements for the product. "X-ray spex" were patented by Harold von Braunhut, who was also the inventor of Amazing Sea Monkeys. This pair is missing the feather insert in the left lens.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1963?]
Call number: 762377

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X-rays of a hand. Also includes a mounted photo of R. W. Wood, photo of an X-ray illusion upon the state - conversion of a living man into a skeleton.

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X-rays of coins, pens, fish, hands, newborn rabbit, foot and shoe, and syringe devices. Also includes a photograph of R. W. Wood and an ad for "A lecture on the marvelous x-rays: Prof. Dayton Miller."

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X-Ray Diffraction Unit Testing

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The Albert R. Hibbs Papers, 1884-2009 (80 boxes) document the personal life and career of Hibbs as a manager and scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the relationships between JPL, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the development of the solar system exploration programs. Hibbs' consulting work for television and radio programs, Biosphere 2, and Morgantown Area Rapid Transit System (MARTS) are also documented. Although the collection arrived at The Huntington in disarray, original order of the materials was maintained when possible and the arrangement reflects Hibbs' general organization by correspondent, subject, or format of materials. The collection is divided into ten series: Audio Visual Materials, Consulting Files, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Notebooks, Personal Files, Photographs and Negatives, Presentations and Speeches, Publications and Writings, Teaching Files, and Oversize. The bulk of collection materials date from 1931 to 1999 and consists of audio and video tapes, clippings, correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs, publications, speeches, and writings. As the collection is arranged by both subject and format of the materials, researchers should be aware that materials are often dispersed through the series. For example, materials related to specific subjects are frequently represented in the JPL and Notebooks Series; similarly, Hibbs' friendship and collaboration with Roy L. Walford is documented in the Correspondence and Aging Research and Writings subseries of the Personal Series, in the Space Bioshpheres Ventures subseries of the Consulting series, as well as in the Audio Visual Materials Series. Correspondence is also dispersed throughout the series.

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Op tics

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"The first monograph of 1998 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography Roger Newton, Op Tics is compiled from 10 years of experimental work in the (un)nature of photographic experience. Three parts natural philosophy and two parts photography, Newton's work proposes a photographic document based on a fluid definition of the lens. Newton makes material and geometric transformations of the photographic system by designing and constructing lenses of oil, water and corn syrup. Suggesting our world seen from the outside and from shifting or unstable reference systems, the images from Newton's refracting liquid lenses explores the transformative effect complicit in the interaction of the human and mechanical visual apparatuses with the physical world. Part Nightmarish and part Wonderland, Newton takes us on a detour from the traditional photographic narrative directly to the unconscious and the limits of the physical world"--Publisher's description.

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Röentgen X-ray tube

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The collection consists of articles, correspondence, chiefly written by or to Otto Glasser, photographs, pamphlets, X-rays, and, an X-ray tube used by Röentgen. There are several copies of the X-ray Röentgen took of his wife, Anna Bertha's hand on December 22, 1895, and an X-ray of the hand of a gunshot victim, taken by Michael I. Pupin in February 1896. Correspondents include Thomas Edison, Bern Dibner, Wilhelm Conrad Röentgen, Arthur R. Von Hippel, and numerous other scientists and physicists. There are several articles written by, as well as X-rays done by, Wolfram Conrad Fuchs, a German electrical engineer who became a pioneer in radiography.

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