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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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In another reply I said they should have given him like 8 million to start and avoided the whole issue.
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  Agreed

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