Book ID: CBB001422636

Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age (2014)

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Cheung, Derek T. (Author)
Brach, Eric (Author)


Rowman & Littlefield


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Translated from the Chinese
Physical Details: x + 342 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad. This book shows the interconnection of each advance to the next on the long journey to our modern-day technologies. Exploring the combination of genius, infighting, and luck that powered the creation of today's electronic age, Conquering the Electron debunks the hero worship so often plaguing the stories of great advances. 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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Authors & Contributors
George Ogola
Lynn B. Spigel
Ann Gray
Erin Bell
Di Mauro, Marco
Luke Stadel
Concepts
Communication technology
Television; video
Technology and culture
Electronics
Electrons
Semiconductors
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
Middle and Near East
Puerto Rico
Latin America
Japan
Italy
Institutions
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Universitet Kazan
Akademiia Nauk SSSR
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