Title: The inventor's dilemma :
Authors: Gerber, David J.,
Date: 2015
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Physical description: 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: T
Abstract: "The extraordinary life and career of the iconic twentieth-century inventor, technologist, and business magnate H. Joseph Gerber is described in a fascinating biography written by his son, David, based on unique access to unpublished sources. A Holocaust survivor whose early experiences shaped his ethos of invention, Gerber pioneered important developments in engineering, electronics, printing, apparel, aerospace, and numerous other areas, playing an essential role in the transformation of American industry. Gerber's story is remarkable and inspiring, and his method, redolent of Edison's and Sperry's, holds a key to a restored national economy and American creative vitality in the twenty-first century."--
Contents: Part I: The fall -- Part II: The ascent -- Part III: Regaining and ideal -- Part IV: Fulfilling an ideal -- Part V: The tamarisk tree.
Subject headings (LCSH): Biographies; Businessmen--United States--Biography.; Engineers--United States--Biography.; Gerber Scientific, Inc.--History.; Gerber, H. Joseph, 1924-1996; Gerber, H. Joseph.; Inventors--United States--Biography.; Manufacturing processes--United States--Automation--History.