Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Bell Laboratories
- date made
- 1962-03
- Credit Line
- from Bell Telephone Laboratories, thru S. P. S. Porto
- Physical Description
- ruby (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 9/16 in x 3/32 in; 3.96875 cm x .23812 cm
- Object Name
- laser crystal
- ruby crystal
