The full history should be written by G.S. Others can write reminiscences only. Besides, I contacted with G.S. from 1972 till 1981 only. I cannot judge of what was previously. Moreover, I became a permanent guest at his home and a member of the "kitchen cabinet" since the end of 1973 only. Thus, my knowledge is very restricted....

This time frame is characterized by a speedy advance both in theory and practice of TRIZ.
 

1. In 1973 G.S. puts forward SuF-analysis. He first presented it at his home to two members of the Public Laboratory for Inventive Creativity (PLIC, or OLMI in the Russian abbreviation), Irina Flikstein and Chingiz Gadjiev. As both of them recollected, G.S. was satisfied with their exitement of the concept, and immediately offered to put on the paper what he presented. Irina Flikstein wrote down the sketch of the presentation which later was edited by G.S. and published in SAMIZDAT with three names on the title page: Altshuller, Gadjiev, Flikstein.

Later on Ch. Gadjiev would say that he wanted his name to be removed from the title of the paper because he felt that he was a simply passive listener in the story.

2. In 1975 G.S. puts forward the idea of the standardization of the solutions of inventive problems. First five standrds were presented then. In the work on some next standards participated several members of PLIC: Yuri Gorin, Genady Filkovsky, Yuri Hotimlyansky, Yevgeny Karasik, Oleg Scrotsky.

3. The first half of the seventies are also marked by creating the first catalogue of physical effects and phenomena illustrated with their applications in invention. A legend credits Tejmur Kengerli as a trigger for unfolding the work: he was the most outspoken advocate of paying attention to physics in the TRIZ's development. In the wake of his numerous appeals of the kind, G.S. offered a physicist Yuri Gorin to unfold the work on creating the catalogue. In few years the first version of the catalogue was ready.

4. Until 1977 standards and SuF-analysis were not incorporated in the algorithm of solving inventive problems ARIZ. In 1977 G.S. presents ARIZ-77 which already incorporates them, as well as the first catalog of physical effects and phenomena.

5. In the mid-seventies G.S. initiates the work on the laws of technical systems' development. He discovers the law of the increased rhythmical accordance in the course of systems' development. Yuri Hotimlyanski discovers the responsiveness principle which later on is generalized by G.S. into a law of the increased energy conductivity in a system in the course of its development.

6. At the same time: -- B. Goldovsky enriches TRIZ by the notion of an "ideal substance".

-- G. Filkovsky and Y. Karasik started to work on TRIZ for programmers and scientists.

-- Y. Karasik develops the theory of technical dualities and the based on it theory of resolving physical contradictions.

-- V. Tsurikov applies principles of TRIZ to problems of CETI.

S.S. Did G.S. develop TRIZ alone ? He mention in his books some people, how did they improve TRIZ ?

Actually he could do not mention them at all because all these people contributed nothing but mentioning them was profitable for G.S. I would say that apart from the minor exceptions, G.S. was the sole author of all elements of TRIZ... presented in his articles and books. He was (and is) a really titan.
The numerous allegations against him came from the people which actually contributed nothing. For example, David Chernoguz asserted that it was his idea to place the RVS operator at that place where it appeared in ARIZ-73 (in ARIZ-68 it stood elsewhere). From my point of view the location of RVS was not important. But it seems to me that Chernoguz left TRIZ around 1973 with the filling that G.S. borrowed something from him. There were many such people.
On the other hand, the really significant ideas in TRIZ proposed by others were not welcomed by G.S. He tried to expel them. Around the same 1973 Boris Goldovsky (from Gorky) put forward extremely interesting idea of "ideal substance". He was ridiculed by G.S. Goldovsky's concept never appeared in TRIZ although it seems to me that in late eighties G.S. borrowed and give to V. Fey the term "ideal substance" but put into it its own contents (from my point of view a very weak contents).
Regarding me. Almost nothing of my ideas were permitted to TRIZ. (I do not consider work on macro-micro as my own). In mid-seventies, I developed a concept that all physical contradictions can be resolved by separation the contradictory requirements between some opposite things (i.e. between dualities). That time only two separation principles were known: separation of contradictory requirements in space and separation them in time. I argued that it is possible to separate between any opposite things: - between the whole and the parts; - between the cause and the effect; - between the input and the output; - between the shape and the substance; etc. G.S. rejected the idea but borrowed its particular case: the separation between the whole and the parts: the elements of a system should satisfy the requirement A and the system as a whole should satisfy the requirement anti-A. Afterwards, he realized that the concept is good but could not borrow it word for word. Then he found the round about way: He started to say that all contradictions can be resolved by separation of contradictory requirements. Period ! By separation between what ? He decided not to specify .....

S.S. : You mentioned that used to work on the problem TRIZ for programmers. Why did not you started to design TRIZ soft ?

I personally felt from the very beginning that such a software would be useless. We lived in USSR and were thinking in the terms of "useful -- useless" and "true--false" but not in the terms "marketable -- not marketable". There was no need in thinking of whether or not it is possible to make money of it. Since then my opinion of the TRIZ soft did not change.

SS: The first paper about TRIZ was published in 1956 by G.S.A. and R. B. Shapiro. Who is the second author ?

R. Shapiro was his friend as a youth. More exactly, there were three friends: Altshuller, Shapiro, and Feitelson. Feitelson was interested in psychology well before G.S.A. and eventually became the head of the department of psychology at Vladimir State University. He died in the seventies. When he died, "The problems of psychology" ("Voprosi psihologii") published the reminiscences of his colleagues of how a lovely person Feitelson was. Having read these articles, G.S.A. sent to the editorial board the reminiscences of his own. And he really had what to say.

Shortly after WWII G.S. invented the scuba diving (well before it was re-invented in the West). In this work he was assisted by R. Shapiro. Besides, in 1946 G.S.A. started to work on TRIZ. R. Shapiro thought that would Stalin knew of their wonderful deeds in Baku, he would offer them a lab in Moscow. he asked G.S. to write a letter to Stalin. Although G.S.A. was doubtful, he agreed.

Unfortunately, the letter contained not only the description of their proposals but also a criticism of "Pravda" (The main communist newspaper in USSR - S.S.) and some decisions made by the Soviet government. In particular, the government decided to trade the German patent fund at his disposal after WWII for American technology. G.S. and Shapiro wrote that this decision is erroneous because the American technology would be outdated in few years whereas Germans patents could be useful even in 30 years. As for "Pravda", they indicated that despite its annually published figures of a good situation with invention in USSR, the situation is actually bad and offered to improve it. Besides, they referred to Stalin too unceremoniously (not "Dear comrade Stalin" for example).
As a result of such a letter, instead of being granted a lab in Moscow, both got arrested. In the course of the investigation, it became apparent that Feitelson provided KGB additional information regarding G.S. and Shapiro. G.S. and Shapiro were released from GULAG in the mid-fifties after Stalin died.
R. Shapiro appeared also in 1959 (when G.S. started the propaganda of ARIZ) in the paper "Expelling the Six-wing Seraphim" in "IR" magazine of the USSR Society of Inventors and Rationalizers.
The Altshuller-Shapiro collaboration broke down in mid-sixties. Around 1980 Shapiro emigrated to Israel where died in 1993.

S.S.: Your gospel is finished in 1981 Why ?

As I mentioned previously, TRIZ had been mostly developed in the seventies in Baku by G.S. Altshuller and his students: Y. Gorin, G. Filkovsky, Y. Hotimlyansky, Y. Karasik, O. Scrotsky.
O. Scrotsky drawn in 1978. Y. Hotimlyansky emigrated to USA in 1978. G. Filkovsky emigrated to Israel in 1979. I moved to Tashkent for 1 year in 1980.
I never stopped TRIZ development, but my relations with G.S. broke down in 1982. Besides my points of view on further TRIZ development did not match those of G.S. I always searched for the fundamental principles of the nature hidden in the TRIZ's findings. I believe that such principles do exist and TRIZ is a merely their first manifestation. Other manifestations are possible in physics, biology, and other fields. I always tried to bring more mathematics to TRIZ and, conversely, more TRIZ to mathematics. G.S. did not share my objectives and was not supportive in publishing my results found on this way in the "Technology and Science" magazine where he was an unofficial editor of the section "Technology and psychology of creativity". That is why I started to search for other opportunities of publication. In April 1982 I managed to publish a paper "Algebra of intuition" in one of the most prestigious magazines of the Soviet Academy of Science "Chemistry and Life". The paper was not welcomed by G.S. and his fanatic followers. In particular, G.S. was irritated that I spoke of intuition despite he put a lot of effort in TRIZ's propaganda to expel the notion of intuition from the technology of creativity. Since that time our ways diverged...
Later G.S. had some students in Baku and other cities of USSR, you know several of them. Perhaps they can write down their own gospels.