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Chappe Brothers invented the optical telgraph. It used a series of lights to deliver messages. -
Jacques Babinet and Daniel Colldon discovered that light could be directed at jets of water to create wonderous displays. -
Albert Einstein develops stimulated emission theory. it states that a high enegy atom when "stimulated" by a photon of a certain wavelength another photon will be made. -
John baird patented his idea of using transparent light arrays to transmit images for T.V. -
Heinrich Lamm was the first to transmit a light bulb filament image. -
Charles Campbell used a ruby laser for medical use. -
Telephone companies tart to use fiber-optic cables that carry live telephone information. -
Willian Wheeler invented a system to light a home with one electric lamp. This system used many pipes covered in reflective material. -
Alexander Graham Bell deigned an optical telephone system. It functioned similar to a telephone. However, telephones are more realistic and naturally became more popular. -
Optical amplifiers are built into the fiber cable itself by Emmanuel Desurvire and David Payne along with P.J. Mears. -
A fiber optic cable around the world becomes the longest single cable network. It now has a variety of operation centers. This cable provides a nice structure for next-gen interent applications. -
A fiber cable that used used optical amplifiers was laided across the Pacific Ocean capable of handling over 300k telephone calls at the same time. -
APA citations History of Fiber Optics. (n.d.). Retrieved September 25, 2021, from http://www.timbercon.com/history-of-fiber-optics/ Lasers and Fiber Optics Timeline - Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century. (n.d.). Retrieved September 25, 2021, from http://greatachievements.org/?id=3706