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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Paperback - 2013
by Jon Gertner
The definitive history of America's greatest incubator of technological innovation. In this first full portrait of the legendary Bell Labs, Gertner takes readers behind one of the greatest collaborations between business and science in history.
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The definitive history of America's greatest incubator of technological innovation
In this first full portrait of the legendary Bell Labs, journalist Jon Gertner takes readers behind one of the greatest collaborations between business and science in history. Officially the research and development wing of AT&T, Bell Labs made seminal breakthroughs from the 1920s to the 1980s in everything from lasers to cellular elephony, becoming arguably the best laboratory for new ideas in the world. Gertner's riveting narrative traces the intersections between science, business, and society that allowed a cadre of eccentric geniuses to lay the foundations of the information age, offering lessons in management and innovation that are as vital today as they were a generation ago.
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- Title The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- Author Jon Gertner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Date 2013-02-26
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143122791 / 0143122797
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.39 x 5.49 x 0.94 in (21.31 x 13.94 x 2.39 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Technological innovations - United States -, Telecommunication - United States - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 384
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