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Fibre Optics

When fibre optics changed your viewing pleasure. Dr Charles Kao, pioneer of fibre optics in telecommunications, discusses developments and uses, including television.

This is a programme from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 1996.

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18 minutes

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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project