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Fiber Optics
"A relatively new technology with vast potential importance, fiber optics is the
channeled transmission of light through hair-thin glass fibers."
[ Less expensive than copper cables
[ Raw material is silica sand
[ Less expensive to maintain If damaged, restoration time is faster
(although more ....
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.... data or voice, so it can be used.
All of this seems to be a very "modern" concept, and the technology we use
is. The concept though, was the idea of Alexander Graham Bell in the late 1800's.
He just didn't have a dependable light source... some days the sun doesn't
shine! He thought of the idea that our voices could be transmitted by pulses of
light. The people who thought that audio, video, and other forms of data could
be transmitted by light through cables, were present day scientists. Most of
the things that are possible today, Alexander Grahm Bell could n ....
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