LEDs Take the Lead

In existence for more than 35 years, LED lights have only recently become visible in exterior marine applications.

The headline events of 1971 focused on the Vietnam war and busing to integrate schools. The price of a postage stamp increased to eight cents, and President Nixon was readying to win re-election in a landslide. And no one, outside of a few scientists, took much note of Jacques Pankove at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey, who developed a thing called a light emitting diode, LED for short. Why didn’t anyone notice this semiconductor device that emitted blue light? Because it was really just an aside that came from failed efforts to create a flat-panel television, yes, in 1971! ...

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