maser
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Same as Mazer.
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A precursor of the maser was a hydrogen device built and tested by the physicists Theodor V. Ionescu and Vasile Mihu in 1946.
Approved Carl Maser to the Meeker Lodging Tax Board.
During the early 1960s, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed a maser to provide ultra-low-noise amplification of S-band microwave signals received from deep space probes.
Concept Each satellite will have two rubidium atomic clocks and two passive hydrogen maser atomic clocks, critical to any satellite-navigation system, and a number of other components.
For this reason Charles Townes suggested replacing "microwave" with the word "molecular" as the first word in the acronym maser.
Most of these terms never caught on, however, and all have now become (apart from in science fiction) obsolete except for maser and laser.