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OCR: BOOK OF INVENTORS A biography page tells you about an inventor's life and the story behind their inventions. Slam cooth THEODORE MAIMAN GEORGE MANBY Log Pook boTw 1927 1765-1854 THEODORE T: Jemen MAIMAN EARLY fire extinguishers in the 1750% were just glas ball of H was born in Les water that were thrown on fires. Angeles. After Although wid dy advertised, they studying phyvic, were not much used he began wewearch into methods of In 1816, an English anny captain producing concentrated Eight beans. turned 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 Innapce 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 LEFT-HAND PAGE TURN Hinney light that had ever been produced. water modek, in which com pressed Clicking here takes you He called his machine the laser. air forced water out of a cylinder. to the previous page. Bad Fioc Extinguisher HELP CONTENTS