Download or read book The Beginnings of Piezoelectricity written by Shaul Katzir and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beginnings of Piezoelectricity, the first history of the subject, exhaustively examines how diverse influences led to the discovery of the phenomenon in 1880, and how they shaped subsequent research until the consolidation of an empirical and theoretical knowledge of the field circa 1895. Shaul Katzir’s historical account shows that this ‘mundane’ science was an intriguing intellectual and practical enterprise, which involved originality, surprises and controversies.