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Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser (ieee.org)
44 points by jnord on July 18, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


I would have thought Chris Knight and Mitch Taylor would have had a hand in it.


Well their project was later classified by the US Government.


> Using a crystal made of purified geranium, a semiconducting material, the rectifier could convert AC to DC

I like this typo.


If you write down the exact line and column and ask them to look at it, would that make it an index of reflection?


Yeah I saw that too - I'm sure they meant gerManium, but it's cool to think I could turn my geranium plant into a transistor! Of course, it would be a PNP transistor - Pink N Pretty.




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