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Soap, science, and flat-screen TVs : a history of liquid crystals / David Dunmur, Tim Sluckin.
- Title
- Soap, science, and flat-screen TVs : a history of liquid crystals / David Dunmur, Tim Sluckin.
- Author
- Dunmur, David (David A.)
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | QC173.4.L55 D86 2011 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Sluckin, Timothy J.
- Description
- xix, 345 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Liquid crystals had a controversial discovery at the end of the 19th century but were later accepted as a 'fourth state' of matter, and finally used throughout the world in modern displays and new materials. This book explains the fascinating science in accessible terms, and puts it into social, political, and historical perspectives.
- Alternative Title
- History of liquid crystals
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-321) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. It's all Greek to me: an introduction -- 2. Crystals that flow: fact or fiction -- 3. Liquid crystals, where do they come from? -- 4. La Gloire Francaise -- 5. The meeting that wasn't and the meeting that was -- 6. The threads of fife -- 7. The winds of war -- 8. Renaissance -- 9. An unlikely story -- 10. The light dawns in the West -- 11. The sun rises in the East -- 12. The new world of liquid crystal materials.
- ISBN
- 9780199549405 (hbk.)
- 0199549400 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 674652713
- SCSB-10350408
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library