of lights the next problem is to find a better medium to send the light beam. Swiss Physicist Daniel Collodon and French Physicist Jacques Babinet did some of the first experiments. These two men showed that light could move along jets of water in the 1840’s. 14 years after these men did showed that light could move through a jet of water another scientist named John Tyndall popularized the concept in his demonstration that had 2 tanks of water. He had a jet of water jumping from one tank to another and it was illuminated by light. Optical fibers went a step further. They are essentially transparent rods of glass or plastic stretched so they are long and flexible. During the 1920s, John Logie Baird in England and Clarence W. Hansell in the United States patented the idea of using arrays of hollow pipes or transparent rods to transmit images for television or facsimile systems. However, the first person known to have demonstrated image transmission through a bundle of optical fibers was Heinrich Lamm, than a medical student in Munich. His goal was to look inside inaccessible parts of the body, and in a 1930 paper he reported transmitting the image of a light bulb filament through a short bundle. However, the unclad fibers transmitted images poorly. All of this was just the beginning; people now realized the potential of light and fiber optic technology. The telecommunication industry was looking for greater bandwidth in the anticipation of greater television and telephone use. To do this they need to have higher frequencies and light seemed to be the cutting edge. They still had the problem of carrying the light from one place to another. So they tried to use lasers to connect one place to another. Just like Bells invention did. Just as Bell had found the atmosphere interfered with the transmission and made it unreliable. In September of 1970 the announcement was made that a single-mode fiber had been invented. The f...
