Book ID: CBB000600664

Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930--1970 (2006)

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Lécuyer, Christophe M. P. (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: x + 393 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Kenney, Martin (2006) Review of "Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930--1970". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 799). unapi

Review Young, Stephanie (2006) Review of "Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930--1970". Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (p. 180). unapi

Review O'Mara, Margaret Pugh (2006) Review of "Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930--1970". Journal of American History (p. 942). unapi

Essay Review Johnson, Ann (2008) What If We Wrote the History of Science from the Perspective of Applied Science?. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 610-620). unapi

Essay Review Bassett, Ross (2007) The Mysteries of the Trade: Christophe Lécuyer's Making Silicon Valley. Technology and Culture (pp. 401-403). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Lécuyer, Christophe M. P.
Adams, Stephen B.
Brock, David C.
Bugos, Glenn E.
Choi, Hyungsub
English-Lueck, Jan A.
Journals
Science as Culture
American Quarterly
History and Technology
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Journal of Literature and Science
Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy
Publishers
Stanford University Press
Stanford University
Yale University
Basic Books
University of California Press
University of Oklahoma Press
Concepts
Technology
Computer industry
Electronics industry
Science education and teaching
Biographies
Engineering
People
Shockley, William
Bardeen, John
Brattain, Walter Houser
Jobs, Steve
Low, George M.
Moore, Gordon E.
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
18th century
19th century
Places
Silicon Valley (California)
United States
California (U.S.)
New York (U.S.)
Institutions
Stanford University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
University of California, Berkeley
Intel Corporation (firm)
SpaceX
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