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Saturday, April 08, 2006

The Best a Man can Get !!

Gillete was a unit described by Theodore Maiman as an early measure of laser output power. The measure was simply the number of razor blades through which the laser could burn a hole. Due to the relative uniformity of razor blades manufactured by The Gillette Company, it had some usefulness as a rough comparison.

For more of these weird measurement units, go here.

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