[time-nuts] HP Stories: Battery Chargers, and a fading idolization of HP

[jimlux]

On 2/10/19 4:36 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
>> Christopher Shawn McGahey's wrote his phd at Georgia Tech on the subject,
>> and it sorts a lot of facts from fiction.
> 
> "HARNESSING NATURE'S TIMEKEEPER: A HISTORY OF THE PIEZOELECTRIC QUARTZ CRYSTAL TECHNOLOGICAL COMMUNITY (1880-1959)"
> https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/28255/mcgahey_christopher_s_200905_phd.pdf
> by Christopher Shawn McGahey, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2009
> 
> 


This is an awesome work.. although some of the clever turns of phrase 
are a bit of a groaner...
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If I meet him, I'll buy him a beer.