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The Idea Factory

The Idea Factory Paperback / softback - 2013

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, Gertner takes readers behind one of the greatest collaborations between business and science in history.

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Traces the origins of some of the twentieth century's important inventions. This title tells the story about the life and work of a small group of eccentric men - Mervin Kelly, Bill Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and Bill Baker
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  • Title The Idea Factory
  • Author Jon Gertner
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • 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
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780143122791_inp
  • 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
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Technological innovations - United States -, Telecommunication - United States - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 384

Summary

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.

From the publisher

Jon Gertner grew up in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, just a few hundred yards away from Bell Labs. He has been a writer for the New York Times Magazine since 2004 and is an editor at Fast Company magazine. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his wife and two children.

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Media reviews

“An expansive new history . . . does an impressive job of illuminating many of Bell Labs’ key technological triumphs.”

Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 04/07/2013, Page 28

About the author

Jon Gertner grew up in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, just a few hundred yards away from Bell Labs. He has been a writer for the New York Times Magazine since 2004 and is an editor at Fast Company magazine. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his wife and two children.

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