The idea factory : the Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation
(2012)
By:
Gertner, Jon
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
384/GERTNER,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, [2012]
©2012
©2012
DESCRIPTION
422 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781594203282, 1594203288
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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