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Liquid-crystal displays are now ubiquitous in homes, stores, businesses and laboratories—on pocket calculators, wrist watches, clocks and so forth; only 14 years after RCA's initial disclosure of potentially useful liquid-crystal displays, these devices provide the basis for the second largest display industry, second only in dollar volume to cathode-ray tubes. This remarkable growth has been based on the development of a sophisticated understanding of the molecular properties of liquid crystals.
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