Sixty years of holograms marked

Organisers said the exhibition included the latest holograms

A Warwickshire museum is hosting a collection of holograms to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first one.

The exhibition at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum has highlighted developments over the decades since Dennis Gabor invented the first hologram in 1947.

Organisers said the international collection has included the latest examples and visitors could find out how holograms are made using lasers.

'Holograms, the first 60 years' has been scheduled to end on 31 August.

'Sizeable chapter'

The exhibition was devised by art collector Jonathan Ross, namesake of the BBC presenter, in association with curators from Banbury Museum and the Oxfordshire Museum.

There have been examples of how holograms have been used in consumer items such as credit cards, cosmetics, CDs, mobile phones and clothes, and where they have been used to illustrate books and comics, toys and games.

Organisers have said the exhibition would "recreate the excitement" for those who remember the popular emergence of holograms in the 1970s and 1980s.

Dr Gabor discovered holography by accident while working to improve the electron microscope and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971.

The scientist, who died in 1979 aged 79, has also been credited with inventing the quartz mercury street lamp and the flat television tube.

He described himself as "one of the few lucky physicists who could see an idea grow into a sizeable chapter of physics".

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The exhibition looks at how far holographic technology has developed