Great feuds in technology : ten of the liveliest disputes ever /
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Hoboken, N.J. :
John Wiley & Sons,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Ned Ludd versus the industrial revolution: are machines the problem?
- Davy versus Stephenson: who invented the miner's safety lamp?
- Morse versus Jackson and Henry: the electromagnetic telegraph
- Edison versus Westinghouse: the AD/DC war
- Ford versus Selden and ALAM: automobile manufacturing
- Wright Brothers versus Curtiss, Chanute, Ader, Whitehead, and other: the first successful flying machine
- Sarnoff versus Farnsworth: the fathers of television
- Rickover versus Zumwalt (and just about everyone else): nuclear submarines and a nuclear Navy
- Venter versus Collins: decoding the human genome
- Rifkin versus the Monsanto Company: battling the biotech world.