Experimental Laser Crystal
date: label: date made
content: 1962-03
name: label: maker
content: Bell Laboratories
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This ruby crystal was used in early laser experiments at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. The first laser-related object in the Museum's Electricity Collections, it was acquired only three years after Theodore Maiman made the first laser at Hughes Aircraft in May 1960.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: subject
content: Laser
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Bell Telephone Laboratories, thru S. P. S. Porto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.323405
label: catalog number
content: 323405
label: accession number
content: 251547
objectType: label: Object Name
content: laser crystal
label: Object Name
content: ruby crystal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ruby (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 9/16 in x 3/32 in; 3.96875 cm x .23812 cm