The Idea Factory
Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Jon Gertner
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 the transistor to the laser, from digital communications to cellular telephony, it's hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn't bee...
Publish Date
2012-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
2012-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads rating
4.18
ISBN
0884819703136
Recommendations
5
Recommendations
2015-11-09T08:00:00.000Z
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg_book_clubBelow are my favorite books and articles about the history of computing and Silicon Valley. – source
The definitive history of America's greatest incubator of technological innovation. – source
2021-12-29T05:55:53.000Z
Some of my favorite books are on unique times in history when a group of incredibly talented people came together to build:
- American Prometheus (Manhattan Project)
- Dealers of Lightning (Xerox PARC)
- The Idea Factory (Bell Labs)
- Masters of Doom (id Software)
- Skunk Works – source