"Jerry Pethick: The Missing History of the Sand Isolation Table"
Melissa Crenshaw · Journal of Physics Conference Series · 2013
Jerry Pethick (1935–2003) was one of the first artists to experiment with holography in the mid 1960's. He was a close friend and collaborator with Lloyd Cross of Multiplex fame. Pethick and Cross started the School of Holography in San Francisco California on Shotwell Street. Pethick is known for building the first sand optics isolation table and writing the first holography handbook describing how to build such a system and create holograms with it. This paper offers some of the missing history of his accomplishments.