The man who saw tomorrow : (Record no. 73558)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 8555197 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220712204925.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 181218s2018 mau ob 001 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780262345033 |
| -- | electronic bk. |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | electronic bk. |
| 082 04 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call Number | 621.3092 |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author | Hoddeson, Lillian, |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The man who saw tomorrow : |
| Sub Title | the life and inventions of Stanford R. Ovshinsky / |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 PDF (400 pages). |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Remark 2 | Intro; Contents; Preface (by Lillian Hoddeson); Acknowledgments; Image Credits; Introduction; Becoming an Inventor; Inventing with Others; The Intuitive Mind; Stan the Man; A Long Trajectory; I Becoming an Inventor; 1 Young Years (1920s-1930s); Ben Ovshinsky; Bertha Munitz; Ben and Bertha Ovshinsky; The Birth of Mashie, Stan, and Herb; Early High School Years; 2 Passion for Machines (1940-1944); Akron Standard Mold; Senior Year; Goodrich Rubber; Imperial Electric; Attempts to Enlist; Marriage to Norma Rifkin; Arizona; Herb's Visit to Stan and Norma; Stan's Return to Akron. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Remark 2 | 3 Smarter Machines (1944-1952)Working at the Airdock; Exchange Auto Parts; Benjamin Ovshinsky's Death; The Barn on Chaffin; The First Invention; Stanford Roberts in Dover; Moving Back to Akron; Machine Intelligence; Building Lathes in New Britain; The Automatic Tractor and the Industrial Computer; Leaving New Britain; 4 Love Story (1950s); Arrival in the Motor City; Ralph Geddes Redux; Smarter Cars; Hupp and General Automation; Cone Company and the Programmable Automatic Lathe; Leaving Hupp; Tann and the Multiple-Ball Switch; Iris Dibner; Stan and Iris; Schizophrenia and Epilepsy. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Remark 2 | Neurophysiology at Wayne StateThe Ovitron: A Turning Point; Support for the Ovitron; 5 New Beginnings in the Storefront (1960-1964); A New Family; Nurturing Invention: The Storefront; Early Energy Conversion Work; The Early ECL Family; Family Life; The Search for New Switching Materials; Early Promotional Efforts; Leaving Birmingham, the Storefront, and Wayne State; II Inventing with Others; 6 The Birth of ECD: An Invention Factory (1965-1979); Physical Review Letters and the New York Times; Creating a Research Laboratory; Optical Phase-Change Memory; Growth of the Physics Department. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Remark 2 | Theories and Models of Chalcogenide SemiconductorsOIS and OMI; The Beginning of ECD's Photovoltaic Program; A Bold Concept and Major New Funding; The UNC Suit; Expansion; 7 The ECD Community: A Social Invention (1965-2007); The Research Community; The Consultants; The Institute for Amorphous Studies; Changing Lives; Shadows; Family; 8 Solar Energy: Working at the Edge of Feasibility (1979-2007); ARCO (1979-1983); Sohio and Sharp (Early to Mid-1980s); Canon: Creating United Solar Systems (1990-2000); Sovlux (1990-1996); Bekaert (2000-2005). |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Remark 2 | 9 Hydrogen and Batteries: The Genie and the Bottle (1980-2007)A Discovery in the Hydrogen Research Group; The Ovonic Battery Company; GM-Ovonic and the EV1; Battery Litigation; Baotou; Hydrogen Cars; Texaco; Chevron; The Akron Hydrogen Dream; 10 Information: Displays and Memory Devices (1981-2007); Flat Panel Displays; Losing Control of OIS; Phase-Change Memory; Ovonyx (Ovonic Unified Memory); Envisioning a Cognitive Computer; Interlude: Science, Art, and Creativity; Drawings and Paintings; Toys and Models; Writing; Science and Art: An Analogy; Cosmology; III Later Years. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy technology continue to shape our world. |
| 700 1# - AUTHOR 2 | |
| Author 2 | Garrett, Peter K., |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=8555197 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | eBooks |
| 264 #1 - | |
| -- | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| -- | The MIT Press, |
| -- | [2018] |
| 264 #2 - | |
| -- | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| -- | IEEE Xplore, |
| -- | [2018] |
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| -- | text |
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| 337 ## - | |
| -- | electronic |
| -- | isbdmedia |
| 338 ## - | |
| -- | online resource |
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| -- | Print version record. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Electrical engineers |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Inventors |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Electrical engineers. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Inventors. |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 2 | |
| -- | United States. |
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