When Was Thermography Invented?
The Basic Roots of Thermography Date Back Even to the Time of the Pyramids. in 1700 Bc, a Papyrus Documented the Association of Heat with Disease– the Root of...
The basic roots of thermography date back even to the time of the pyramids. In 1700 BC, a papyrus documented the association of heat with disease– the root of what modern thermography helps us understand today! By the time we reached 400 BC, physicians were using mud to observe the heat in a patient's body.
Who invented thermography?
Fig. 3 - John Herschel who made and named the thermogram in 1840. Fig. 4 - Prof Samuel Langley who invented the bolometer in 1880.
How long has thermography been around?
Thermography has been around since the 1950s. It first caught the interest of the medical community as a potential screening tool.
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