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Conquering the Electron
- The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Conquering the Electron offers listeners 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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- Vinayak A
- 24-04-23
wonderful treatment of business history and tech
even if you know most of the history do read it
many things the early tech pioneers did to win in the markets are relevant to this day
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- Sheetal J.
- 23-08-21
Must read book for electronics engineers
Excellent book for electrical and electronics engineers working on technology field, for both students as well professionals
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- sriharsha
- 23-11-20
nice summary of rise of electronics
The latest developments of semiconductor technology, like power electronics, wireless etc. should have been covered in much details, but it was a good book to know the history of the electronics. Lot of the information was new to me, so I enjoyed it.
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