1 Stimulating One's own Creativity. - 2 The Transistor. - Early Semiconductor Research. - The Bell Laboratories Program. - Preparations for the Transistor Announcement. - Patent Precautions. - The Transistor Announcement. - The Benefits. - From Surface States to Solid State. - The Double-Dimple Transistor. - Transistor Applications. - Leaving the Beaten Track. - 3 Electronic Music. - Musical Tones. - Harmonic Analysis. - The First Electric Organ. - The Early Days of Radio. - Radio and Electronic Music. - Electronic Developments. - Pitch Stabilization. - Doctoral Research. - The Formant Concept. - Visible Speech. - Formants and Hallformanten. - Engineering Thesis. - The Baldwin Electronic Organ. - Church Organists' Views. - Formants and Pipe Organ Mixtures. - Several Electrical Musical Analogues. - Electronic Door Chimes. - Radar and High-Frequency Loudspeakers. - Modern Electronic Music. - 4 Lasers. - The Laser. - Laser Fundamentals. - The Metastable State. - The Two-Step Process. - Gas Lasers. - Semiconductor Lasers. - Alignment. - Distance and Length Measurements. - Lasers in Machine Tool Applications. - Interferometric Detection of Footprints. - Lasers in the Supermarket. - Drilling and Welding Applications. - Identification. - Fabric Cutting. - Medical Applications. - Communicating with Light. - Video Disks. - Laser Fusion. - Interdisciplinary Innovation. - 5 Traits. - Help for the Young. - The Value of Praise and Encouragement. - The Value of Creativity for Children. - Other Traits of Creative Youngsters. - Interest in Problems. - Chess-Playing Traits. - Chess Problem Composing. - Computer Chess. - Music. - Religion. - Authorship. - Age. - Needs. - 6 Waveguides. - Early Radio Transmission. - Microwave Waveguides. - The Waveguide as a Transmission Medium. - Phase and Group Velocities. - Long-Distance Transmission. - MillimeterWavelengths. - The Circular Electric Mode. - Recent Field Tests. - Waveguides and Coaxial Cables. - Dielectric Waveguides. - Metallic Dielectric Waveguides. - Electron Bunching. - Bunchers and Catchers. - Ideal Bunching. - Klystrons. - Velocity Modulation of Waves. - Radar Breakdown Problems. - Wave Coding. - Corrugated Sound-Wave Waveguides. - Pulse Compression Tests. - Chirp. - Natural Waveguides. - Underwater Waveguides. - The SOFAR Channel. - SOFAR Localization. - Nonexplosive Acoustic Uses. - Acoustic Atmospheric Waveguides. - Waveguide Junctions. - Tee Junctions. - Hybrid Junctions. - The Magic Waveguide Junction. - 7 Lenses. - Velocity Focusing. - A Constant-Thickness Lens. - The Metal Plate Lens. - Stepped Lenses. - Radio Relay. - Foamed Dielectric Lenses. - Wider Bandwidth Needs. - Born's Light Wave Analysis. - The First Artificial Dielectrics. - Sphere and Disk Dielectrics. - Strip Lenses. - The Transcontinental Relay. - The Bell Transcontinental Circuit. - High Refractive Power Lenses. - Path Length Lenses. - Lenses for Loudspeakers. - Microwave Lenses for Sound. - 8 Communications Satellites. - The First Rockets. - The Intercontinental Missile. - The Reentry Problem. - Sputnik. - Initial U. S. Reactions to Sputnik. - Explorer I. - Apollo 11. - Communications. - Communications and the Space Program. - Orbiting Satellites. - Geostationary Satellites. - Domestic Satellites. - Direct Broadcast Satellite. - 9 Why Invent?. - Wherewithal. - Renown. - Helping Others. - Eminence. - The Fraternity of Doers. - 10 Radar. - Early History. - The British Beginnings. - The U. S. Beginnings. - Radar Fundamentals. - The Plan Position Display. - The A-Scope Display. - Fire Control Radars. - Other Forms of Military Radar. - Doppler Radar. - Radars for Cars. - Circular Polarization. - An Aircraft-Versus-Submarine Machiavellism. - 11 Holography. -Gabor's Interdisciplinary Skill. - Holography Fundamentals. - Making a Hologram. - The Complete Hologram Process. - The Hologram of a Scene. - Parallax in Holograms. - Single-Wavelength Nature of Holograms. - Nonoptical Holograms. - Microwave Holograms. - Microwave Holograms and Liquid Crystals. - Ultrasonic Holograms. - Underwater Viewing. - Earth Exploration. - Phase Quadrature. - Laser Holography. - Three-Dimensional Holography. - Information Content. - The Concept of Phase in Holography. - Synthetic Aperture Radar. - Two Recent Holography Developments. - Gabor's Clairvoyance. - 12 Picturephone. - Visible Speech. - Real Time Sound Analysis. - The Real Time Analyzer. - From Analyzer to Picturephone. - Transmission Cost. - The Experimental Movie. - The First Picturephone. - The Permanent Record Form. - The Announcement to the Press. - Additional Background Information. - Press Reaction. - The Move to Higher-Quality Pictures. - The First Commercial Service. - The Future. - Peroration. Language: English