Ki te hunga kāore i te mōhio, ko te kupu LASER he kupu whakarāpopoto mō te Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. I hangaia te laser i te tau 1960 e te tohunga ahupūngao o Amerika, a Theodore H. Maiman, engari i te tau 1967 ka kitea he nui te uara whakaora o te laser e te rata me te taote pokanga o Hungary, a Tākuta Andre Mester. Ko te Ruby Laser te taputapu laser tuatahi i hangaia.
I a ia e mahi ana i Te Whare Wānanga o Semelweiss i Budapest, i kitea pōhēhētia e Tākuta Mester ka taea e te mārama rēseri rupi taumata-iti te whakatipu anō i ngā huruhuru o ngā kiore. I roto i tētahi whakamātautau i ngana ai ia ki te tārua i tētahi rangahau o mua i kitea ai ka taea e te mārama whero te whakaiti i ngā pukupuku i roto i ngā kiore, i kitea e Mester he tere ake te tipu anō o ngā huruhuru i runga i ngā kiore i rongoatia i ngā kiore kāore i rongoatia.
I kitea anō hoki e Tākuta Mester ka taea e te mārama taiaho whero te whakatere i te tukanga whakaora o ngā patunga o waho o ngā kiore. Whai muri i tēnei kitenga, i whakatūria e ia te Pokapū Rangahau Taiaho i Te Whare Wānanga o Semelweiss, ā, i reira ia i mahi ai mō te toenga o tōna oranga.
I roto i tētahi tuhinga nā New Scientist i te tau 1987, tata ki te 20 tau i muri i te kitenga o tōna matua, i kōrerotia te tama a Tākuta Andre Mester, a Adam Mester, mō tana whakamahinga i ngā taiaho hei rongoā i ngā mate pukupuku 'kāore e taea te rongoā'. "E haria ana e ia ngā tūroro i tukuna mai e ētahi atu tohunga kāore e taea te mahi anō mō rātou," te kī a te tuhinga. Mai i ngā tūroro 1300 kua rongoatia tae noa mai ki tēnei wā, kua ora katoa ia i te 80 ōrau, ā, kua ora hapa i te 15 ōrau." Ko ēnei te hunga i haere ki tā rātou tākuta, ā, kāore i taea te āwhina. I taua wā tonu ka toro atu rātou ki a Adam Mester, ā, kua ora te 80 ōrau o te hunga mā te whakamahi i ngā taiaho whero.
He mea whakamīharo, nā te kore o te māramatanga ki te āhua o te whakaputanga o ngā pānga pai o ngā taiaho, he maha ngā kaipūtaiao me ngā tākuta i taua wā i kī he 'makutu'. Engari i tēnei rā, e mōhio ana tātou ehara i te makutu; e mōhio ana tātou ki tana mahi.
I Amerika Te Raki, kāore i tīmata te rangahau mō ngā rama whero tae noa ki te tau 2000 pea. Mai i taua wā, kua tino piki haere te mahi whakaputa pukapuka, inā koa i ngā tau tata nei.
