Tim Sluckin’s
HISTORY OF LIQUID CRYSTALS HOMEPAGE
Compiled with translation and commentary
by Timothy J. Sluckin, David A. Dunmur
and Horst Stegemeyer (Taylor and Francis 2004) ISBN
0-415-25789-1
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Selected extracts from the book
Contents and preliminary pages
The early period: liquid crystals or anisotropic liquids
Translation of the first (1889) paper by Otto Lehmann on liquid crystals
Translation of Georges Friedel’s
groundbreaking 1922 paper (extracts)
Some pictures from the history of liquid crystals
Otto
Lehmann’s polarising Microscope
The first smectic phase diagram (Arnold and Sackmann 1959)
Updated by Tim Sluckin