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

This work 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. The author how Bell Labs served as an incubato...

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Main Author: Gertner, Jon
Format: Book
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.
Bell Telephone Laboratories > History.
Table of 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.

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