Liquid Gold
Subtitle: The Story Of Liquid Crystal Displays and the Creation of an Industry
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: March 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9789812389565
Subjects: Circuits & components; Reference works; Science: General Issues; Technology & Industrial Arts; Reference; Science; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; Marketing - Industrial; Modern - General
First sentence: The history of liquid crystals began more than 100 years ago in 1888 when liquid crystallinity, also called by the technical term "mesomorphism," was first observed and characterized by Austrian botanist Friedrich Reinitzer1 in Germany.