FIBER-OPTIC WIREWho and When:
Researchers from Corning Glass Works, Rober Maurer, Donald Keck, and Peter Schultz invented fiver-optic wire in the summer of 1970.
What is it:
Fiber-optic wire is a strand of fused silica that has a high melting point capable of carrying 65,000 times more information than copper wire. This information is carried by patterns of light waves which can be decoded from distances of even thousands of miles away.
Outcomes:
Thanks to the invention of fiver-optic wire, fiver-optic communication came to be. In 1977, General Telephone and Electronics developed the first live telephone traffic through the wire in Long Beach, California. Later that year, Bell installed a 1.5 mile optical telephone communication system in Chicago. Today, fiber-optics traffic more than 80% of the worlds long distance voice and data information. They are also used in medical and mechanic imaging.
Effects and Significance:
Fiber-optics allowed telecommunications (TV/phone/internet) become less expensive because it is cheaper to make. Because of its tiny size, things that use them are also allowed to be made smaller. This also means more phone lines can go into a cable allowing for more channels and faster internet. Fiber-optics have less of a chance of losing or interfering with other signals and they use less power. Plus they are light weight, flexible and non-flammable.
This discovery is so important because without it we would never have made the advances we have made up to today. The reason this project is done online is because of how simple and fast of a process it is. Without fiber-optics it would never have been a possibility as the internet wouldn't be as popular and as attainable as it is. This invention also helped us move foward in voice communication with cheaper phone lines and calling through computers. This invention definately help shape our modern lives.
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