Seeing Through Walls: Superman and the Science of Sight
DC SUPERMAN SCIENCE SEEING THROUGH WALLS SUPERMAN AND THE SCIENCE OF SIGHT BY AGNIESZKA BISKUP SUPERMAN CREATED BY JERRY SIEGEL AND JOE SHUSTER BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE JERRY SIEGEL FAMILY CAPSTONE PRESS a capstone imprint
INTRODUCTION POWERFUL PEEPERS Superman may be the most famous super hero of all time Who doesn’t know his origin story Sent to Earth as a baby from the dying planet Krypton Raised in Kansas as an ordinary human by Jonathan and Martha Kent But he isn’t ordinary is he As an alien from another planet Superman has all sorts of powers that we can only dream about Superman is not only fast and strong he’s not called the Man of Steel for nothing but he also flies is incredibly smart and has super-vision In fact his eyes can emit X-rays heat rays and see at telescopic and microscopic levels As ordinary humans we can’t shoot heat beams out of our eyes Although we only use our eyes to see Superman’s power is a reminder that the science behind vision is pretty extraordinary And human sight is just the start From vision enhancement to amazing animal eyes there’s more to sight than well meets the eye X-ray an invisible high-energy beam of light that can pass through solid objects
FACT Superman’s super-vision developed gradually from his 1938 appearance in comics He first used X-ray vision in 1939 microscopic vision in 1940 and heat vision in 1949
