DEMOCRITIUS of Abdera, commonly known as the Laughing Philosopher, probably because he did not consider the study of truth inconsistent with a cheerful countenance, believed and taught that all bodies ...

Long before the introduction of those little cardboard, blue-eye, red-eye 3D glasses, Americans knew how to create three dimensional entertainment. They used hand-held devices – precursors to ...

Invented in 1838 as a tool for investigating theories of vision 1, the stereoscope is sometimes described as an early virtual reality tool. In the years following its invention, the stereoscope and ...

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We've been slowly working through Oliver Wendell Holmes' 1859 feature on photography over the last couple of days. I looked at allegorical readings of the piece and at the beauty of his science ...

If you walked into Charles Herzog’s classroom last spring, you’d have seen a peculiarly modern sight: middle schoolers all staring into virtual-reality gear. Their bodies, officially, were at Flood ...

To share intriguing pictures with your family and friends during the Victorian era, you would purchase stereoscope viewing cards and show them to people in your home. Call it the “Instagram” of the ...

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It’s an unfortunate consequence of growing older, that no longer are you able to read the print on a SOT-23 package or solder a QFN without magnification. Your eyes inexorably start to fail, and to ...

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