The Chart of Electromagnetic Radiations

The Lawrence Livermore labĀ posted this gorgeous old posterĀ of the electromagnetic spectrum onto its Flickr page. It’s an amazing artifact of scientific education from 1944, complete with images of retro radio equipment, hospital radium rays and one of the first commercially available television set.

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(And if you really want to, you can download the 10,000 pixel wide version; but be warned, it is big!)

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