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OCR: BOOK OF INVENTORS A biography page tells you about an inventor's life and the story behnd their inventions. Click on any red box Mam cooth for more information THEODORE MAIMAN GEORGE MANBY D born 1927 1765-1854 THEODORE MAIMAN EARLY fire extinguishers in the 1730% were just glas ball of Lumen H was born in Les water that were thrown on fires. Angeles. After Although wid dy advertised, they War berg studying physics, were not meoch used. 2502 he began research into methods of In 1816, an English anny captain producing concentrated Eight bears. named George Manby vowed to Earlier workers had produced the develop a portable fire fighter after maser, which was used in radio watching a fire rage on the fifth floor Prindplce astronomy to amplify log. of a building, where hous wavelength radiation. In 1960, Maiman produced the most intense could not reach. He invented an extinguisher, similar to modern Hiuncy light that had ever been produced. He called his machine the Iaser. water modek, in which com pressed air forced water out of a cylinder. Bad LAMer Fioc Extinguisher HELP CONTENTS