| ABOUT NoUVIR NoUVIR (pronounced new-veer), stands for No UV and No IR. No Ultraviolet. No Infrared. Zero. Nada. Zilch. None. Just stone-cold, pure-white fiber-optic light with absolute control over aim, focus and intensity. Early in the 1990s Ruth Ellen Miller, a Magna Cum Laude business graduate with a post graduate teaching credential in Art and Design, and her father, Jack Miller, a scientist and optical engineer with well over one hundred U. S. patents, became concerned about photochemical damage to our nation's art and historical artifacts. Historical documents were fading to the point of becoming illegible. Artwork was drying, cracking and losing color, slowly turning dull and lifeless. The cumulative damage being done even in museum settings was horrific. At that time no one knew exactly what light was. No one knew exactly how photochemical damage happened. And, no one knew how to stop the damage other than by hiding everything away in the dark. Ruth Ellen convinced Jack that there had to be a way to solve the problem of photochemical damage. What was needed was new science and a new system of illumination. What was needed was NoUVIR! After three years of intense study, starting with the work of Einstein, Feynman and others, NoUVIR defined the photon, finally resolving the wave/particle debate. Then we described and modeled the quantum physics of light including the interaction of light and matter and the processes of reflection, refraction and photochemical damage. Along with this scientific research, NoUVIR developed seventeen US Patents in fiber-optic lighting and a practical fiber-optic lighting system capable of almost eliminating photochemical damage. Then we did the hard part. We made it simple to use and easy to understand. NoUVIR developed the science. NoUVIR developed the solutions. NoUVIR is changing the world. No one knows more about lighting or fiber-optic technology than the people at NoUVIR. SPECIFIC QUESTIONS? At NoUVIR we answer the phone! You will NEVER get an answering machine, a computer telephone maze or get dumped into a voice-mail box. Talk to the people who developed the science; real people, who have real answers to the real problems in lighting and conservation along with a real desire to help. Call 302.628.9933. WHY CALL? We want to tell you everything that you need to know about museum and exhibit lighting from controlling glare and reflection to eliminating photochemical damage with Reflected Energy Matching. We want to tell you all about NoUVIR's wonderful line of fiber-optic lighting and how you can increase the life of your art and artifacts up to 70 times while having more light, better presentation and lower energy costs. We'd do it here, but computers can make lousy reference books. With all of the information, graphics and photographs we want to show you, files and download times get really big. We've got an abbreviated format here, but we put a couple of gigabytes into our free 130-page catalog. You can have one free just by calling NoUVIR! WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME? A NoUVIR catalog is a wonderful thing! One state conservation supervisor made it required reading for not only his staff but for every one who plans to bid on exhibits or lighting at his facility. A NoUVIR catalog will give you:
PONDERING THE PRINCIPLES OF THE UNIVERSE? The non-profit NoUVIR Research Institute was formed in 1994 to continue scientific research and education in the areas of physics, light and matter as they relate to museum conservation. Books and research papers available through the NoUVIR Research Institute include:
The overriding goal of the NoUVIR Research Institute is to provide clear, simple, scientifically accurate evaluations of museum and conservation issues along with practical, effective and easily implemented solutions. Representatives from the NoUVIR Research Institute are available to speak to museums, museum associations and other groups. Call NoUVIR for details. Past presentations include: Lights of Philadelphia - IESNA East Central Regional Conference Illuminating Engineering Society NA, Susquehanna Section - Harrisburg, PA Small Museum Association - Ocean City, MD National Museum of the United States Air Force - WPAFB, OH Illuminating Engineering Society NA, Pittsburg Section - Pittsburg, PA Seaford Museum / Seaford Historical Society - Seaford, DE Houston Museum of Natural Science - Houston, TX Alberta Museum Association - University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada U.S. National Park Service - Harper's Ferry Center, WV National Postal Museum - Smithsonian - Washington, DC National Museum of American History - Washington, DC Southern California Optical Society - Los Angeles, CA Iowa Museum Association - Iowa State University, Ames, IA Southeast Museums Conference - Birmingham, AL Rhode Island School of Design - Providence, RI Isabel Gardner Museum - Boston, MA Virginia Art Museum - Richmond, VA Denver Museum of Art - Denver , CO Huntington Library and Museum - San Marino, CA Museum of Man and Nature - Manitoba, Canada Charlestown Museum - Charlestown, SC Washington D.C. Historical Society - Washington, D.C. Peninsula Museum Association - Newport News, VA |