The Idea Factory : Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner
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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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- The Idea Factory : Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- Author
- Jon Gertner
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Good
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- ISBN 10
- 1594203288
- ISBN 13
- 9781594203282
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- Penguin Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
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