Tesla invents a button lamp, so constructed…

1893 CE

Tesla invents a button lamp, so constructed as to place a piece of matter such as carbon, or a diamond or a ruby, in the center, and bombard this "button" with electrical energy that would bounce off the button onto the inside of the globe and bounce back onto the button. (Were this a ruby—Tesla specifically worked with rubies—this describes exactly the way a ruby laser is created.)

Tesla refers in his great 1893 work The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla to a "pencil-thin" line of light that was created with this device.

Because the device is constructed so as to "vaporize," or destroy, the button, the laser effects are probably short-lived.

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