Special:Badtitle/NS90:Milestone-Proposal talk:Invention and development of vapor-phase axial deposition (VAD) method for mass production of high-quality optical fiber for telecommunication/Citation editing/reply (4)

I support this milestone, but would like to suggest slight grammatical change -- switching out of passive voice:

In 1977, Dr. Tatsuo Izawa of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) invented the vapor-phase axial deposition (VAD) method suitable for the mass production of optical fiber. NTT, Furukawa Electric, Sumitomo Electric, and Fujikura collaboratively investigated the fabrication process. The technology successfully shifted from research and development to commercialization. The VAD method has contributed greatly to the construction of optical-fiber networks.