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With this Ruby Laser, George Porter Sped up Photochemistry

Cars That Think

It ran on 110 volts DC supplied by a large army diesel engine that sat on the back of a truck parked outside. George Porter’s flash of insight at a lighting factory On a trip to collect a mercury arc lamp for the searchlight, Porter saw flash lamps being made at a Siemens factory. Porter and Norrish were about to prove him wrong.

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