Idea Factory Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

Name: Idea Factory Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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ISBN: 9780143122791

ISBN-10: 0143122797

ISBN-13: 9780143122791

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jon Gertner

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The definitive history of America's greatest incubator of technological innovation In this first full portrait of the legendary Bell Labs, journalist Jon Gertner takes readers behind one of the greatest collaborations between business and science in history. Officially the research and development wing of AT&T, Bell Labs made seminal breakthroughs from the 1920s to the 1980s in everything from lasers to cellular elephony, becoming arguably the best laboratory for new ideas in the world. Gertner's riveting narrative traces the intersections between science, business, and society that allowed a cadre of eccentric geniuses to lay the foundations of the information age, offering lessons in…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.31" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction. Wicked Problems






Oil Drops



West to East



System



War



Solid State



House of Magic



The Informationst



Man and Machine



Formula



Silicon



Empire






An Instigator



On Crawford Hill



Futures, Real and Imagined



Mistakes



Competition



Apart



Afterlives



Inheritance



Echoes


Acknowledgments


Endnotes and Amplifications


Sources


Selected Bibliography


Index