Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Gertner, Jon.

Title The idea factory : Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation / Jon Gertner.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2012.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  338.7 GERTNER    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  384 G328    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  384 GER    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  384 GERNTER    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  384 GERTNER    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  384 GERTNER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  384 GER    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  384 GERTNER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  384.0973 GERTNER    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  384 GERRITER    Check Shelf
Description 422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-412) and index.
Contents Introduction: Wicked problems -- Oil drops -- West to East -- System -- War -- Solid state -- House of magic -- The informationist -- Man and machine -- Formula -- Silicon -- Empire -- An instigator -- On Crawford Hill -- Futures, real and imagined -- Mistakes -- Competition -- Apart -- Afterlives -- Inheritance -- Echoes.
Summary Highlights achievements of Bell Labs as a leading innovator, exploring the role of its highly educated employees in developing new technologies while considering the qualities of companies where innovation and development are most successful.
Subject Bell Telephone Laboratories -- History -- 20th century.
Telecommunication -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Creative ability -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Inventors -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9781594203282
1594203288
-->
Add a Review