Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (810 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684835150 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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While Taylor's research is thorough (though one might quibble with the precision of some of his technical descriptions), he tends to overwrite. Over the 30 years he spent fighting for the patent, he neither finished his Ph.D. (Nov.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. patent office, arguing that Townes's original design wouldn't have worked.(Under U.S. . nor attended conferences to raise his scientific credibility. From Publishers Weekly History has witnessed many discoveries made almost simultaneously by competing scientists: Newton and Leibniz quarreled over who invented the mathematical system of calc
Laser is the fascinating, true story of Gordon Gould's successful 30-year struggle to assert himself as the right inventor of the laser, and a myth-shattering, behind-the-scenes account of the American patent process. of photos.
He lives in New York City. Nick Taylor is the author or coauthor of eight books, including the national bestseller John Glenn: A Memoir, and numerous articles for magazines, including Esquire and The New York Times Magazine.
A_"Well written; accurate; exciting look at real world invention" according to A_2007_reader. If you ever had a fantasy about being the first to invent something completely revolutionary, outside of a corporate setting, and then getting a patent and having the industry come to you to get permission to make the invention, you must read this book, which will give you a rude reality check.Having talked to experts about this book, the book is accurate about the patent process and the book is fair about giving cred. 007_reader said Well written; accurate; exciting look at real world invention. If you ever had a fantasy about being the first to invent something completely revolutionary, outside of a corporate setting, and then getting a patent and having the industry come to you to get permission to make the invention, you must read this book, which will give you a rude reality check.Having talked to experts about this book, the book is accurate about the patent process and the book is fair about giving cred. Courtroom Combat in TechTown Jeremy M. Harris I had heard intriguing snippets about the strange story of Gordon Gould and the laser, so this book went automatically onto my reading list as soon as I learned that Taylor had written it.If the laser were an ordinary device like the phonograph or the sewing machine, its undisputed father would be Theodore Maiman of Hughes Aircraft, who designed and built the first operational example (a strobe-pumped ruby rod) in 196. "Fascinating. A real world techno-thriller." according to A Customer. According to Thurber, "Man is capable of incredible feats, so long as it is not what he is supposed to be doing at the time." Here is an excellent illustration of Thurber's bedrock psychological principle.Instead of writing up his doctoral dissertation, which is what he was supposed to be doing at the time, Gordon Gould invented the laser and wrote it up in a notebook to support a patent application. He never finished