Laser - Bell Labs filed a patent application for their proposed optical maser
Time: 1958
Place: U.S.
Details: In 1958, Bell Labs filed a patent application for their proposed optical maser; and Schawlow and Townes submitted a manuscript of their theoretical calculations to the Physical Review, published that year in Volume 112, Issue No. 6.
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