Author(s): A. Steinhaus
Publisher: Mir Publishers
Year: 1966
Language: English
City: Moscow
Tags: colors
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CONTENTS
LIGHT
A Piece of Glass
Simple Experiments that Explained Very Complex Phenomena and Even the Rainbow
Questions and Answers
What Language Does Science Speak?
A Word from the Dictionary
Free Son of Ether
Pros and Cons
Searches, and Again Bells
Light and Shade
Light and Electricity
Two Discoveries
Spectrum of Electromagnetic Vibrations
Extraordinary Tails
The Very Tiniest
The Photoelectric Effect
Interlude
After the Crisis
THE EYE AND VISION
Our Eyes
Properties of the Human Eye
Colours
From Facts to Theory
Inexplicable Phenomena
TELESCOPES AND MICROSCOPES
Telescopes
Microscopes
PHOTOGRAPHY ANDCINEMATOGRAPHY
Imprinted Light
A Ray of Light in a Dark Room
Photons, Silver and, Chemistry
Rivals or Friends?
The All-Seeing Eye
The Three-Colour Theory in Action
Autographs of Invisible Particles
Recorded Movement
Stopping the Instant
A Cinematograph Gun
LIGHT AND ELECTRONICS
Electronic Cells
The Multiplication Principle
Sensitive Eyes
The Fate ol the Lost Photons
New Roads
A Light Amplitier
An Electricity Factory
Secret ot the Code
The Electronic Eye
TELEVISION
Telecasting from Space
New Trends in Old Fields
The Television Eye in the Air
The Control Room Engineer's Helpers
Television and the Worker
Into the Depths of Seas and Oceans
The Eyes and Hands of the Experimenter
AFTERWORD
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
INDEX
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