).” When looked at, the composite images are synthesized by the human brain as a 3-D image. A great asset to the invention of holography was The Museum of Holography. The museum was founded in 1976 in New York City as an international center for the understanding and advancement of this new medium. Rosemary H. Jackson is the founder. It serves as the focal point for the art, science and technology, as well as the world's foremost holography exhibitor. ‘One year later, the museum opened its Portrait Gallery of Famous New Yorkers (Hol-o-fame) with Martin E. Segal, NY Commission of Cultural Affairs noting, "We congratulate the Museum. I can't think of anything that has happened in New York in the arts in the last four years that is more symbolic of this great city than this innovative, new, imaginative and enduring art form" (Fournier 122).’ Another great asset came about in 1977, the Museum of Holography's traveling exhibition, "Through the Looking Glass.” It is based on its inaugural exhibition of the same name and was opened in Toronto. The traveling show visited art museums and galleries, children's museums and science & technology centers in the United States and abroad for well over a decade. What magazine was the first to use a hologram? The National Geographic magazine was the first major publication to put a hologram on its cover. The March 1984 issue carried nearly 11 million holograms throughout the world. Another cover hologram illustrated the feature article, "The Search for Early Man” came out in November of 1985. The December 1988 National Geographic magazine featured the most aspiring hologram ever published in a large-circulation magazine. “The entire cover was holographic: a globe on the front cover, 3-D type on the spine, and an advertisement on the back. The front-cover hologram was made using a pulsed laser with an exposure of about seven-billionths of a second (Fourni...
