{"id":5615,"date":"2010-02-02T14:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etherwave.wordpress.com\/?p=5615"},"modified":"2010-02-02T14:01:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:01:23","slug":"bright-idea-aips-new-laser-history-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2010\/02\/02\/bright-idea-aips-new-laser-history-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bright Idea&#8221;: AIP&#8217;s New Laser History Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/history\/exhibits\/laser\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aip.org\/history\/images\/laser_thumbnail.jpg?resize=90%2C111\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a>This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the laser.\u00a0 The American Physical Society has its own website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LaserFest<\/a>, dedicated to the occasion.\u00a0 Spencer Weart, retired director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for History of Physics<\/a> at the American Institute of Physics (my employer) has also just completed a new web exhibit,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/history\/exhibits\/laser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> &#8220;Bright Idea: The First Lasers&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0 It is directed at a general audience (and, if I may introduce a slight grumble on this note, the exhibit text does start with that pop-history chestnut that has become the bane of history professors everywhere: &#8220;Since ancient times&#8230;.&#8221;), but I hope that professionals will find the use of multimedia appealing, too.\u00a0 The web design is by Ada Uzoma, who is also helping me with my new web resource, and she&#8217;s really done a lovely job with integrating images and sound into the exhibit.\u00a0 Have a look.\u00a0 For our older web exhibits, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/history\/exhibits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the laser.\u00a0 The American Physical Society has its own website, LaserFest, dedicated to the occasion.\u00a0 Spencer Weart, retired director of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics (my employer) has also just completed a new web exhibit, &#8220;Bright Idea: The First Lasers&#8221;.\u00a0 It<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; &#8220;Bright Idea&#8221;: AIP&#8217;s New Laser History Exhibit<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2010\/02\/02\/bright-idea-aips-new-laser-history-exhibit\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}