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Conquering the Electron

The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age

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Conquering the Electron

By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
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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 Engineering History History & Culture History & Philosophy Physics Science World Technology Innovation
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One interesting fact missing from the Magnetron Story is that it was carried as hand luggage across the Atlantic on a passenger liner and not by the Royal Navy.

Fantastic work and performance.

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Everything electronic in one amazing book. Telegraph, telephone, transistors, television, radio, radar, calculators, computers, consumer electronics, RCA, Intel, Texas Instruments, Sharp, Sony, TSMC etc etc

A perfect book that is precisely detailed with just the right amount of information to do every subject and story justice.

A must-read for anyone interested in electronics

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an excellent book from an author who made a deep research in history and understands phydics

Excellent!

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Brilliantly written, and clinically narrated. It just flowed and was very listenable.

There was an almost perfect mix of technical detail and storytelling.

Thank you!

Amazing

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unbelievable detail of how the science of it all affected everyone commercially, politically and personally over the last 200 years

science, history and business in one

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