Florida has the oldest settlement in the United States with St.  Augustine. The Spaniards settled here in 1565.     Virginia was the first of the original thirteen â¦ colonies and was  started by the settlement of Jamestown in 1607.    Delaware was the first state and was created in 1787.
Neon: historical information. Neon was discovered by Sir William Ramsay, Morris W. Travers at 1898 in London, England. Neon was discovered by Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers in 1898 very shortly after their discovery of the element krypton. Both elements were discovered through work on liquid air.
Ali Javan makes first helium-neon laser at Bell Labs, the first laser to emit a steady beam. 1962-63. Alec Reeves at Standard Telecommunications Laboratories in Harlow, United Kingdom, commissions a group to study optical waveguide communications under Antoni E. Karbowiak. One system they study is optical fiber.