Special:Badtitle/NS90:Milestone-Proposal talk:Sharp 14-inch thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT-LCD) for TV, which has ushered in TFT LCD industry/Emergence of TFT-LCD Display Technology/reply (6)

I agree 100% with Juancarlos-san saying "we should be sure there are two different facts worthy of two different milestones."

1st. Essential key words of my proposal entitled "Sharp 14-inch thin-film-transistor display (-LCD) for , which has ushered in LCD industry" are:

1. 14-inch 2. thin-film-transistor() 3. display(LCD)

"another IEEE Milestone approved for the Liquid Crystal Displays, 1968" is for only for LCD: for was not feasible in 1968.

2nd. "another IEEE Milestone approved for the Liquid Crystal Displays" is what is quoted below: (http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:Liquid_Crystal_Display,_1968)

"Liquid Crystal Display, 1968 Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., Dedicated 30 September 2006 -- IEEE Princeton and Central New Jersey Section

Between 1964 and 1968, at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey, a team of engineers and scientists led by George . Heilmeier with Louis A. Zanoni and Lucian A. Barton, devised a method for electronic control of light reflected from liquid crystals and demonstrated the first liquid crystal display. Their work launched a global industry that now produces millions of LCDs annually for watches, , in televisions, and ."

Below is a quote from "B.J. Lechner: History Crystallized_A First-Person Account of the Development of Matrix-Addressed LCDs_for television at RCA in the 1960s; Information Display 1/08 p26-30":

During 1969, RCA abandoned entirely the objective of making a liquid crystal display: By 1969, RCA's color--receiver business was matured and the smallest consumer product of significance was a 13-in. color set. Because we could not promise to compete with such a product in any foreseeable time frame, had no interest in investing further.

In 1969, RCA abandoned LC because 13-inch, minimum size for , color LCD did not seem to be possible in the foreseeable future; in 1987, Sharp adopted 14-inch to demonstrate -LCD could be used for .

18 years between RCA 1969 and Sharp 1987 was required for LCD and to be developed good enough for LCD .