Light Round Corners: Kapany, Hopkins and Fibre Optics | Kitson Teaches Pro, Book 7
Kitson Teaches Pro, Book 7: the story of Narinder Singh Kapany and Harold Hopkins, whose 1954 work on bundles of glass fibres that carry an image led to medical fibrescopes and, in time, to the optical fibres of today.
A regular book in plain, readable prose (37 pages, PDF), written for working professionals, engineers and curious adults. What is inside:
- The optics, explained properly: total internal reflection and cladding
- Two papers in Nature in one week of 1954, and who deserves the credit
- From image bundles to the first fibrescopes
- How imaging fibres led on to communication fibres
- What was disputed, and what the sources really say
- Lessons for engineers and professionals today
Every fact is sourced, and the full list of sources with access dates is at the back. Where sources disagree, the book says so.
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