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A Look Into Mirrors: Their Making and Use Throughout History

A Look Into Mirrors: Their Making and Use Throughout History

Cooper, Iver P.

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1476698554
ISBN13: 9781476698557
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Feb 13 2026
Pages: 251
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.53 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

In the distant past, a human being noticed their reflection in a body of water and that the reflection was of their own body. It was, perhaps, love at first sight.

Over the course of several millennia, humans learned how to make that reflection portable, first by polishing stone and metal, then by bonding a metal to the back of a clear glass or plastic. As the reflections became clearer and brighter, mirrors were applied to more than self-inspection: for extended vision, via periscopes, telescopes, microscopes, and cameras; for communication, via heliographs, photophones, and the mirror galvanometers of undersea telegraph cables; for amusement, via kaleidoscopes and stage illusions; for energy, via solar furnaces and sunlight-propelled spacecraft; and for other purposes, via many additional ingenious devices. This book presents the story of the construction and use of mirrors for work and play.

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