Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1987.

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Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1987.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81001357

Two letters to Joan Bromberg, director of the Laser History Project, describing the early history of Frank's company, Laser Nucleonics, Inc.; their problems with patents and manufacturing in the field of laser technology; and the variety of lasers they developed and currently produce. File also includes a two-page document entitled: The Strange Story of the Invention and the Attempted Suppression of the 10,000 Mile Spark Plug.

12 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Franks, Harry E.

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Bromberg, Joan Lisa

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Historian (science). On history of science faculty at the University of Hawaii, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and the Hebrew University; assistant to Léon Rosenfeld at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (1969-1971); contract historian at the U. S. Department of Energy (1977-1981); and director of the Laser History Project co-sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, Center for History of Physics, from 1982. Wrote "The Laser in America, 1950-1970" in 1991 (MIT Press). Latest work ...