Re: history question

jim beam wrote:

is there anything else you know of that sheds a little more light?
i've spent hours on google, but it's mostly propaganda pieces.
anything with a little more meat?

You should be able to reconstruct the history
of this technology from the patent literature,
in as much depth as you want:

http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

You can start with U.S. Patent 4,297,145, searching
both the patents it references and the patents
which reference it.
.

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