Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
by Derek Cheung and Eric Brach
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Conquering the Electron
Want to know how AT&T’s Bell Labs developed semiconductor technology—and how its leading scientists almost came to blows in the process? Want to understand how radio and television work—and why RCA drove their inventors to financial ruin and early graves? Conquering the Electron offers these stories and more, presenting each revolutionary technological advance right alongside blow-by-blow personal battles that all too often took place.
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- Publisher
- Globe Pequot Publishing
- Authors
- Derek Cheung , Eric Brach
- Format
- Paperback
- Published
- Feb 24, 2020
- ISBN-13
- 9781493049929
- ISBN-10
- 1493049925
- Pages
- 360
- Carton quantity
- 20 copies
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