Inventing the electronic century : the epic story of the consumer electronics and computer industries : with a new preface / Alfred D. Chandler Jr., with the assistance of Takashi Hikino and Andrew von Nordenflycht.

Consumer electronics and computers redefined life and work in the twentieth century. In Inventing the Electronic Century, Pulitzer Prize-winning business historian Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. traces their origins and worldwide development. From electronics prime mover RCA in the 1920s to Sony and Matsus...

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Main Author: Chandler, Alfred D. (Alfred Dupont), 1918-2007
Other Authors: Hikino, Takashi, Von Nordenflycht, Andrew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Series:Harvard studies in business history ; 47.
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