Google’s special Doodle for First Laser
You may see something different on Google homepage today. Yes, the Doodle is different, and is special. It looks something like this:
Upon clicking on the Doodle, we were led to a search page of “first laser“. So, 16th May is the day the 1st working laser was demostrated.
Taken from Wikipedia:
The first working laser was demonstrated on May 16, 1960 by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories.[2] Recently, lasers have become a multi-billion dollar industry. The most widespread use of lasers is in optical storage devices such as compact disc and DVD players, in which the laser (a few millimeters in size) scans the surface of the disc. Other common applications of lasers are bar code readers, laser printers and laser pointers.
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