mirrors

     

A mirror is an object with a surface that has goo specular reflection; that is, it is smooth enough to form an image. The most familiar type of mirror is the plane mirror, which has a flat surface. Curved mirrors are also used, to produce magnified or demagnified images or focus light or simply distort the reflected image.

Trivia about mirrors

  • In 1930 Bernhard Schmidt invented the first catadioptric telescope that combined lenses & these
  • Made of bronze in Biblical times, today they're often glass with a backing of a silver solution
  • Some of Heloise's readers remove these items from old compacts & hang them on fruit trees to scare birds away
  • Laser beams are "directed" by these optical devices
  • We don't know how Snow White's stepmother managed before Justus von Liebig began silvering these
  • Popular trade items were these, made of iron or obsidian & highly polished to aid reflection
  • One might say that a deception done like a magic trick is done with "smoke and" these
  • The "shattering" climax of Orson Welles' "The Lady from Shanghai" takes place in S.F. in a maze of these
  • A psyche was a 19th century standing one of these, mounted so that it could be tilted