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Newton refracted white light through a prism leading it to be a spectrum of colors.
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Ole Christensen Rømer claimed that light travels at a finite speed and does not travel instantaneously.
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Christiaan Huygens believed that light is made up of waves and that different colors correspond with different wave lengths.
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He performed the famous double slit experiment. He shone monochromatic light through a single slit which provided light that was in phase. Then shown coherent light through two small slits, and saw an interference pattern.
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James Clerk Maxwell discovered that light is a wave of a changing electric field creating a changing magnetic field which travels through space with a speed of 3.0 x 10^8 m/s.
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He found that energy was consumed in discrete bundles, called quanta.
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Einstein created the quantum theory of light. It was the idea that light travels in particles that he called photons. Later on in 1905 he proved that energy and matter are linked.
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Theodore Maiman produced the first working laser.
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The first full 3d television was created in 2010.
