These interviews were conducted by Hecht for his book City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics. Includes audio tapes and original transcripts of interviews conducted by Jeff Hecht, as well as correspondence files and emails with subjects, who range from physicists to electronics engineers. The interview subjects include: Elias Snitzer, George Hockham, Charles Sandbank, Bob Tkach and Andy Chraplyvy, Linn Mollenauer and Ivan Kaminow, Peter Runge, John Midwinter, Paul Lazay, John Wilbur Hicks Jr., Donald Keck, Peter Schultz, Murray Ramsay with Martin Chown and Richard Epworth, J. Jim Hseih, Mort Panish, Kenneth Nill (no transcript), Felix Kapron (no transcript), Ira Jacobs, Charles K. Kao, Robert Maurer, Lewis Hyde (no transcript), Brian O'Brien, Jr., and Willem Brouwer. Also includes reminiscences from the New England Fiberoptic Council (no transcript), and interviews with engineers and scientists at British Telecommunications Research Laboratories. Tapes and/or transcripts exist for 26 people; for others there may only be notes on the interview, and much of this is in electronic format.