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

by Jon Gertner

The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies. From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From

Publisher

Penguin Books

Publication date

2012

Format

Print edition

Pages

422

ISBN

9780143122791