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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Cheung Derek T."]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Conquering the electron : the geniuses, visionaries, egomaniacs, and scoundrels who built our electronic age / / Derek Cheung and Eric Brach"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2014"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-4422-3154-8"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (353 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"338.4/762138"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Electronics - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic industries - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Computer industry - History"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part I. AGE OF ELECTROMAGNETISM; Chapter 1. THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION; Chapter 2. THE TELEGRAPH; Chapter 3. THE TELEPHONE; Chapter 4. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY; Part II. AGE OF VACUUM ELECTRONICS; Chapter 6. CURRENT FLOW IN A VACUUM; Chapter 7. CONTROLLING THE FLOW OF ELECTRONS; Chapter 8. RADIO; Chapter 9. TELEVISION; Chapter 10. RADAR; Chapter 11. COMPUTER; Part III. AGE OF SOLID-STATE ELECTRONICS; Chapter 12. THE SEMICONDUCTOR; Chapter 13. THE BIRTH OF THE TRANSISTOR; Chapter 14. LAUNCHING THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; Chapter 15. THE DAWN OF SILICON VALLEY"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Chapter 16. THE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND THE CHIPChapter 17. CHIP TECHNOLOGY BLOSSOMS; Chapter 18. EVOLUTION OF THE ELECTRONICSINDUSTRY; Chapter 19. LEDS, FIBER OPTICS, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; Chapter 20. THE INFORMATION AGE AND BEYOND; APPENDIX I: FURTHER READING; APPENDIX II: SUMMARYOF KEY \"CONQUERORSOF THE ELECTRON\""]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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 "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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"]