Gordon Gould - Hall of Fame Inventor of the Laser - Inducted in 1991
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman - Continuing Education |
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Design Engineering Management Entrepreneurship and Innovation General Engineering, Engineering Science |
| Learning Resource Type: | Community - Award/Recognition/Scholarship |
| Media Type: | WWW |
| Author(s): | National Inventors Hall of Fame |
| Description: | "Gordon Gould coined the word laser and patented optically pumped and discharge excited laser amplifiers now used in most industrial, commercial, and medical applications of lasers. Invention Impact Gould and his assignee, Patlex Corporation, now hold the basic patents covering optically pumped and discharge excited laser amplifiers. These lasers are used in 80 percent of the industrial, commercial, and medical applications of lasers. Gould also holds patents on laser uses and fiber optic communications." |
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| Keywords: | lasers, history of technology |
| Is Component of |
Invent Now - National Inventors Hall of Fame |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(c) Design a system, component, or process Laboratory Research Skills |
| Use of Resource: | The article closes with this chilling story of bad legal advice: "However, because he misunderstood an attorney's advice, he didn't file for a patent until 1959, after other laser researchers had already filed. Since Gould's original patent application contained a number of different inventions it was put through a series of five separate interferences by the Patent Office. Thus, it was not until 20 years later, in 1977, that the first of Gould's basic laser patents was issued." |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Interactivity Level: | Very Low |
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| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/69.html |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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