Title The idea factory : Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation / Jon Gertner.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	TK5102.3.U6 G47 2012	Available	---

Description	422 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-412) and index.
Contents	Introduction: Wicked problems -- Oil drops -- West to East -- System -- War -- Solid state -- House of magic -- The informationist -- Man and machines -- Formula -- Silicon -- Empire -- An instigator -- On Crawford Hill -- Futures, real and imagined -- Mistakes -- Competition -- Apart -- Afterlives -- Inheritance -- Echoes.
Summary	Highlights achievements of Bell Labs as a leading innovator, exploring the role of its highly educated employees in developing new technologies while considering the qualities of companies where innovation and development are most successful.
Subject	Bell Telephone Laboratories -- History -- 20th century.
	Bell Telephone Laboratories.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Telecommunication -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Telecommunication.
	United States.
	Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Technological innovations.
	Creative ability -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Creative ability.
	Inventors -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Inventors.
ISBN	9781594203282
	1594203288