About the book: 1961 / - Escaping! - says one of the heroes of this story with annoyance. They are conducting a difficult but fascinating search - engineers, scientists, craftsmen. They are looking for: how to penetrate the secrets of what we call a smooth surface, into the world of unimaginably small quantities. How to see it, how to describe and even draw its strange landscape? Many different obstacles must be overcome on this path. Following the search for the heroes of the book, the reader will visit the workshops of a large plant, and the design bureau, and the offices of the Academy of Sciences, and a research laboratory, and will look into America and the British Isles... The reader will take part in inventive discoveries, in scientific disputes, and in the experiments conducted by the actors. Experiments of extremely subtle properties and high precision. And all in order to finally see the “invisibility profile”. And what is the “invisibility profile”, you will learn by reading this book.