Number of employees
15-29
Changing the History of Telephone Service In 1970 Corning Glass developed the first fiber optics cable, which uses laser light traveling through glass instead of electrons traveling through copper. Why does this matter? Because this is the most significant leap in communications technology since the invention of the telephone line. No longer would communication be restricted to the capacity of an electronic current over copper lines. Now communications could travel at THE SPEED OF LIGHT!