The TVs of tomorrow : how RCA's flat-screen dreams led to the first LCDs /
Drawing upon laboratory notebooks, internal reports, and interviews with key participants, Benjamin Gross reconstructs the development of the LCD and situates it alongside other efforts to create a thin, lightweight replacement for the television picture tube. He shows how RCA researchers mobilized...
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Introduction: A World of Screens; 1. The Quest for Magnalux, 1951â#x80;#x93;1956; 2. A Fumbling Prelude, 1956â#x80;#x93;1966; 3. Scattered Origins, 1961â#x80;#x93;1968; 4. Disruptive Displays, 1968â#x80;#x93;1971; 5. The Changing of the Guard, 1969â#x80;#x93;1976; Conclusion: An Invisible Monument; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
