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**Vince**

William Black wrote:
"Vince" wrote in message
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wrote:
Lasers weren't developed with any particular purpose in mind, let
alone a military one, but the people who developed them mainly saw a
use for them in experimental physics for use in spectroscopy and
interferometry.

Cheers,
Ralph- Hide quoted text -
Yes they were. Siemens and I.G.Farben worked on medical lasers and
beam weaponry during World War II, for those specific purposes.
source on lasers in germany in WWII?

Look Vince the text is so obviously the work of a deranged mind that it's
not even worth querying.

Watson-Watt rejected the 'death ray' idea in about 1934, interestingly
after rumours of a German device...

Nobody even built a Maser until after 1950, never mind a laser.

Forget it, it's just more Internet conspiracy rubbish.

I fully agree. My Father in law was student of Lamb's at Columbia and
knew Gould and all the other laser pioneers.(Gould was a student of
Kusch who shared the 1955 Nobel prize with Lamb) Ed actually took the
first photograph made with a laser

I was just assuming it was a mistranslation of the source

Vince

Vince