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Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVs : A History of Liquid Crystals.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2010Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (367 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191004308
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVsDDC classification:
  • 530.429
LOC classification:
  • QC173.4.L55.D86 201
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Science and history: the two cultures - A note to readers -- 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 Française -- 5 The meeting that wasn't and the meeting that was -- 6 The threads of life -- 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 -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- X -- Timeline of events in the history of liquid crystals -- Chapter notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements for figures and photographs -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Liquid crystals had a controversial discovery at the end of the nineteenth 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Science and history: the two cultures - A note to readers -- 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 Française -- 5 The meeting that wasn't and the meeting that was -- 6 The threads of life -- 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 -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- X -- Timeline of events in the history of liquid crystals -- Chapter notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements for figures and photographs -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Liquid crystals had a controversial discovery at the end of the nineteenth 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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