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Ashley Puryear • Sep 21, 2021

Valerie Thomas, Developer of a 3-D Imaging Display That Was Decades Ahead Of Its Time

At the beginning of the 21st Century, viewers were spoiled to the use of 3-D glasses at the movie theatres which enabled viewers to enhance their viewing experience with 3-D videos. A few years after the turn of the 21st Century, TV technology went a notch higher by being able to show 3-D imaging without the use of 3-D glasses. While all this innovations have been highly appreciated by viewers worldwide, but the basic ideology behind all this inventions can be traced back to the year 1976 when Valerie Thomas while working on a NASA project invented how to make concave mirrors create an illusion of 3-dimensional objects.

Valerie Thomas’s first interest in science first showed at the age of 8 when she read The Boys First Book on Electronics. But fate will not have her build-on her interest on