The inventor's dilemma
Subtitle: the remarkable life of H. Joseph Gerber
By: David J. Gerber
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780300123500
Subjects: Inc Gerber Scientific; Businessmen; Engineers; Biography; Automation; Inventors; Manufacturing processes; History
Description: "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magnate H. Joseph Gerber is described in a fascinating biography written by his son, David, based on unique access to unpublished sources.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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The fall; title: Part II: The ascent; title: Part III: Regaining and ideal; title: Part IV: Fulfilling an ideal; title: Part V: The tamarisk tree.