Seeing with Light, Sound, Microwaves, X-Rays, Gamma Rays, Etc.

• Main Author: Wade, Glen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Iowa State University Digital Repository 1990
• Subjects: Acoustics; Dynamics; and Controls; Electrical and Electronics; Electromagnetics and Photonics; Optics; Arctic; Saturn
• Online Access: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/qnde/1990/allcontent/1; https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1475&context=qnde

It is common to regard humans as being able to see only with light, but about a hundred years ago at the beginning of the modern era, along came x-rays and sonograms. By now technology has made it possible for us to see in a great many different ways. Important views such as underground pools of oil...