The Death-Ray In Your Pocket: 50 Years Of Lasers

Presented by Dr Hermione Cockburn Originally Broadcast On BBC Radio 4 It's often claimed you're never more than 10 feet from a rat, and you could probably say the same about lasers. In the home and at the shops, throughout medicine, the military, and almost everywhere else the laser has become one of the most ubiquitous pieces of modern technology. And in just 50 years, not bad for a device that, after its first successful test was immediately dubbed “a solution looking for a problem”. Hermione Cockburn takes a slightly tongue-in-cheek look at the “the Death-Ray in Your Pocket" … Dur: 28mins STEREO - Radio Documentary Available as 192kbps Stereo MP3 - 38MB