A Punjab villager's toy's surprising role in fibre optic cable invention, vital for AI

Indian-American physicist Narinder Kapany is widely known as the 'Father of Fibre Optics.' His groundbreaking work led to the creation of fibre optic cables. Kapany's fascination with bending light began when he received a Kodak camera as a gift. While studying at Imperial College London, he demonstrated that light could pass through glass fibre, even though his professor doubted it.