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An optical unit has been devised which will convey optical images along a flexible axis. The unit comprises a bundle of fibres of glass, or other transparent material, and it therefore appears appropriate to introduce the term 'fibrescope' to denote it.
Co-author with Indian-American physicist Narinder Singh Kapany..

— Harold Horace Hopkins

'A Flexible Fibrescope, using Static Scanning', Nature (1954), 173, 39.

See also: | Nomenclature (54)

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