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Conquering the electron : the geniuses, visionaries, egomaniacs, and scoundrels who built our electronic age /
Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of friction 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Chino |
| Publicado: |
Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of friction 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. Want to understand how radio and television work-and why RCA drove their inventors to financial ruin and early graves? Conquering the Electron offers this story and more, presenting each revolutionary technological advance right alongside blow-by-blow personal battles t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 342 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1322213046 9781322213040 9781442231542 1442231548 9781442231535 144223153X |