Let There Be Light

On May 16th, 1960, a new kind of light existed that nobody had ever seen before. This kind of light has unique properties and doesn’t exist in nature and as far as we know, it had never existed anywhere in the universe since it began, 13.8 billion years ago.

Theodore Maiman had successfully fired the first-ever laser at the Hughes Research Laboratory, having beaten off competition from many other research teams including Bell Labs, IBM, MIT, and Columbia University.