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Sonar to Quartz Clock: Technology and Physics in War, Academy, and Industry Katzir, Shaul (Associate Professor and Director, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Sonar to Quartz Clock: Technology and Physics in War, Academy, and Industry
Katzir, Shaul (Associate Professor and Director, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
The book examines how the unapplied phenomenon of piezoelectricity became applied for technologies such as sonar, crystal frequency control, the quartz clock, and how its research has consequently changed during WWI and the interwar period.
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 7, 2023 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198878735 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 368 |
| Dimensions | 247 × 176 × 28 mm · 754 g |
| Language | English |