Spectrometer plate from Maiman laser experiments
date: label: Date made
content: 1960
name: label: maker
content: Maiman, Theodore H.
label: maker
content: Hughes Aircraft Company
notes: label: Description
content: In May 1960 Theodore Maiman and Irnee D’Haenes, working at Hughes Aircraft in California, demonstrated the first working laser. The beam they generated was not continuous, however, but a rapid pulse of light.
label: Description
content: This glass plate shows the spectral readings from Maiman's laser. The lines on this plate show that the laser did indeed function, and the wavelength of the light it emitted.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Laser
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Hughes Aircraft Company, thru George F. Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.330047
label: catalog number
content: 330047
label: accession number
content: 288813
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectrometer plate
label: Object Name
content: laser spectrometer plate