The study shows that public attention has jumped from one alternative fuel to the next in
continuous waves: first with methanol, natural gas and plug - in electric vehicles in the late 1980s and
early 1990s, then to hybrid electric vehicles, hydrogen, and biofuels in the late 1990s and
early 2000s.
This article traces the development of stabilized lasers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology passive - stabilization experiments of the
early 1960's up through the current epoch of highly stabilized helium - neon and carbon dioxide and
continuous wave dye lasers.