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

Author: Gertner, Jon.

Imprint:New York : Penguin Press, 2012.

Description422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-412) and index.

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