Volumetric X-ray Imaging at Davidson College
Students in Davidson College’s physics department have been examining artifacts from a long-ago grounded ship off the North Carolina coast that state officials say was Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge. But this isn’t a treasure hunt. For them, the prize is in the discovery – uncovering clues about life in the early 1700s, perhaps even solidifying …
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Blackbeard’s infamous pirate ship, The Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), lay lost on the ocean floor off the North Carolina coast for almost 300 years. It was discovered in 1996, but most of the relics of colonial culture aboard its decks, such as specks of gold, glass beads, firearms and brass pins, remain hidden inside a …
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View a video of a Digitome scan. Davidson physics students plowed new scientific ground in 1896 when they took the first X-ray images on American soil. Contemporary Davidson physicists now have a similarly momentous opportunity. The department has recently become the first non-governmental entity in the country to acquire a revolutionary Digitome VXI-500Fx non-destructive imaging …
Blackbeard’s infamous pirate ship, The Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), lay lost on the ocean floor off the North Carolina coast for almost 300 years. It was discovered in 1996, but most of the relics of colonial culture aboard its decks, such as specks of gold, glass beads, firearms and brass pins, remain hidden inside a …
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“This day in national history” came to Davidson on CBS Sunday Morning, when the show’s “Almanac” segment featured the exploits of research students of Prof. Henry Louis Smith. Bribing a janitor to get into the lab, they photographed three bullets and a borrowed cadaver finger, among other objects. Contemporary Davidson physicists now have a similarly …
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