[DOC] [TLE] Theodore Harold Maiman - Wikipedia [PAR] Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman (July 11, 1927  May 5, 2007) was an American 
engineer and physicist credited with the invention of the first working laser. 
Maiman's laser led to the subsequent development of many other types of lasers. 
The laser was successfully fired on May 16, 1960. .... He was made a Fellow of 
the American Physical Society, the Optical Society... [DOC] [TLE] Theodore Maiman - American Physical Society [PAR] But it all started with one lone physicist, Theodore Maiman, who defied the 
doubts of skeptical colleagues to build the first working laser in 1960. ... In 1953, 
Charles Townes patented a device he called a maser, ... Made of synthetic ruby, 
it was the harbinger of a technological revolution that has forever changed the 
world.". [DOC] [TLE] Theodore H. Maiman - National Academy of Sciences [PAR] optical radiation in ruby, in Nature on August 6, 1960. .... The existing maser was 
a big room-sized device with a .... These stresses would degrade ..... those of us 
who built the first semiconductor lasers knew from Maiman, and not from masers
... [DOC] [TLE] Bright Idea: The First Lasers  A history of discoveries leading to ... [PAR] Townes decided to start with potassium gas, since its properties were well 
understood. But one of these properties is that it is corrosive. The gas ... 
Theodore Maiman looking at a ruby cylinder, the heart of his first laser 
experiments. ... Masers were being made not just from gas but from crystals  
synthetic ruby, for one. [DOC] [TLE] Theodore Maiman Invents the First Working Laser (1960 ... [PAR] Theodore Maiman Invents the First Working Laser (1960). Use ... Terms of Use ... 
Aircraft Company in Malibu, California, created the first working laser Offsite Link . 
"Maiman initially sent a description of his device to Physical Review Letters. ... in 
ruby", appeared on 6 August 1960 (T. H. Maiman Nature 187, 493-94; 1960). [DOC] [TLE] Theodore Harold Maiman - Molecular Expressions - Florida State ... [PAR] Theodore Maiman is best remembered for constructing the world's first laser, a 
device ... wavelengths, no one had actually built a device that was capable of the 
feat. ... In May of 1960, Maiman built the first working laser using a synthetic ruby 
rod ... Among these are the Ballantine Medal of the Franklin Institute (1962), the... [DOC] [TLE] A Story of Invention: the Laser | Intellectual Ventures Laboratory [PAR] Mar 11, 2013 ... Taking these ideas further, in 1917 Einstein published the paper Zur ... which was 
the first device developed based on Einstein's theory and the ... Townes began 
working with Arthur Schawlow at Bell Labs where ... Theodore Maiman ... on May 
16th 1960, Maiman operated the first functioning laser (capable... [DOC] [TLE] The laser turns 50 - CNET [PAR] May 14, 2010 ... On May 16, 1960, Hughes Lab researcher Theodore Maiman built the ... 
Essentially, these are devices that, according to Stanford's Gravity Probe B ... 
solid state using a ruby crystal--crafted and used, the world's first laser. [DOC] [TLE] Case study: Lasers - Institute of Physics [PAR] Lasers are devices that emit narrow beams of intense electromagnetic radiation (
light). ... UK university physics departments are at the forefront of many of these 
areas. ... Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories in California 
pipped ... at the post when he built the first working laser in 1960 using ruby as a 
lasing... [DOC] [TLE] Laser vaporization (Inventions) - In Depth Tutorials and Information [PAR] The invention: Technique using laser light beams to vaporize the plaque that 
clogs ... In 1960, Theodore H. Maiman of the Hughes Research Center in Malibu, 
California, built the first laser, using a ruby crystal to produce a laser beam 
composed of ... The first of these, the laser's active medium, is a solid (like 
Maiman's ruby... [DOC] [TLE] 55th anniversary of the laser's invention  International Year of Light ... [PAR] May 27, 2015

Question: In 1960 Theodore Maiman built the first of these devices using a ruby
Answer: Laser