Crystal Fire
The Birth of the Information Age
by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson
352 pages· 1997· ISBN 9780393041248
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Focuses on the human factors behind the invention of the twentieth century's defining artifact, the transistor, highlighting the pride, jealousy, and scientific ambitions of the Bell Labs team who spawned the epoch-making technology.
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