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sep 24, 1956 - Optic Fiber is made

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UK based physicist Narinder Singh Kapany invented the first actual fiber optical cable based on John Tyndall's experiments three decades earlier. Optic fiber is what is in cables, without it you wouldn't be able to transfer data, power, internet and more.

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sep 24, 1956
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~ 69 years ago