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The idea factory : Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation / Jon Gertner.
Van Pelt Library TK5102.3.U6 G47 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gertner, Jon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bell Telephone Laboratories--History--20th century.
- Bell Telephone Laboratories.
- History.
- Telecommunication--United States--History--20th century.
- Telecommunication.
- Technological innovations--United States--History--20th century.
- Technological innovations.
- Creative ability--United States--History--20th century.
- Creative ability.
- Inventors--United States--History--20th century.
- Inventors.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 422 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Highlights achievements of Bell Labs as a leading innovator, exploring the role of its highly educated employees in developing new technologies while considering the qualities of companies where innovation and development are most successful.
- Contents:
- Introduction: 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-412) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594203282
- 1594203288
- OCLC:
- 733230713
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