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  • Conquering the Electron

  • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
  • Written by: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
  • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
  • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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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.
©2011 Derek Cheung and Eric Brach (P)2020 Tantor
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  • Categories: History
World History & Culture Science Physics Engineering
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Very interesting

A great journey through various technologies and advancements. Thoroughly enjoyed it, highly recommended. Well done.

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