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The idea factory : Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gertner, Jon
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Bell Telephone Laboratories > History > 20th century.
Telecommunication > United States > History > 20th century.
Technological innovations > United States > History > 20th century.
Creative ability > United States > History > 20th century.
Inventors > United States > History > 20th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Wicked problems
  • Oil drops
  • West to East
  • System
  • War
  • Solid state
  • House of magic
  • The informationist
  • Man and machines
  • Formula
  • Silicon
  • Empire
  • An instigator
  • On Crawford Hill
  • Futures, real and imagined
  • Mistakes
  • Competition
  • Apart
  • Afterlives
  • Inheritance
  • Echoes.