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Google celebrates invention of the first laser

by David Gonzales on May 16, 2008 at 03:36 PM

Contrary to popular belief, the first laser wasn’t really reverse-engineered from Megatron of the Transformers. It was actually created by a guy named Theodore Maiman by shining a high-power flash lamp on a ruby rod with silver-coated surfaces. And if he hadn’t made the first laser work on May 16,… Continue Reading »

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