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THE IDEA FACTORY - JON GERTNER KARTONIERT (TB)

The definitive history of America's greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some
of the 20th century's most influential technologies  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 been touched by Bell Labs. In The Idea Factory  Jon Gertner traces the
origins of some of the twentieth century's most important inventions and delivers a riveting
and heretofore untold chapter of American history. At its heart this is a story about the life
and work of a small group of brilliant and eccentric men-Mervin Kelly  Bill Shockley  Claude
Shannon  John Pierce  and Bill Baker-who spent their careers at Bell Labs. Today  when the
drive to invent has become a mantra  Bell Labs offers us a way to enrich our understanding of
the challenges and solutions to technological innovation. Here  after all  was where the
foundational ideas on the management of innovation were born.

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