The idea factory : Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation
Gertner, Jon2013
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From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs - officially, the research and development wing of AT&T - was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the 20th century's most important inventions and delivers a riveting and heretofore untold chapter of American history.
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New York : Penguin Books, 2013.
Collation:
422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
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Originally published: 2012.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780143122791 (pbk)
Dewey class:
384
Language:
English
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BRN:
1579226