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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

byJon Gertner

The Idea Factory is Jon Gertner's historical account of bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of business & economics and technology & engineering. Rather than isolating its subject, the book shows how private experience and public systems continually influenced one another. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

Penguin Books

Publication date

2012

Format

Print edition

Pages

422

ISBN

9780143122791