Derek Cheung, Eric Brach

Conquering the Electron (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Conquering the Electron offers readers 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442231542
• Artikelnr.: 43944254

Autorenporträt

By Derek Cheung and Eric Brach

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Age of Electromagnetism 1 The Knowledge Foundation The Beginning
Scientific Method The Magic of Static Electricity The Battery Linking
Electricity and Magnetism Faraday, the Grand Master Maxwell, the Peerless
Genius 2 The Telegraph Messages Sent by Electric Current Annihilating the
Time-Space Barrier Wire Across the Atlantic Intellectual Property Disputes
Morse Code Impact 3 The Telephone Voices Carried Over Wire Building the
Telephone Business Patent Battle of the Century Sound of Music 4 Wireless
Telegraphy Hertz and the Electromagnetic Waves Marconi and the Wireless
Crossing the Ocean Blue 5 Lighting and Electrification Electrical Lighting
Systems Generators and Motors The AC-DC War Impact of Electrification
Edison, Tesla, and Siemens One Hundred Years of Electromagnetism Part II:
Age of Vacuum Electronics 6 Current Flow in a Vacuum Cathode Rays The
Electron Exposed The Puzzle of Penetrative Light The Legacy of Vacuum
Electronics 7 Controlling the Flow of Electrons The Edison Effect The
Vacuum Diode The Magical Third Electrode Voices Across the Continent 8
Radio Christmas Eve, 1904 Core Radio Technology RCA and Sarnoff Armstrong's
Tragedy 9 Television Transmitting Video through the Air A Farm Boy from
Utah and a Russian Émigré The Intellectual Property Battle 10 Radar
Clairvoyance Hunting the Submarine The Most Valuable Luggage Radio
Navigation The Microwave World 11 Computer The Calculating Machine ENIAC
Foundation of Computer Architecture Framework for the Future Part III: Age
of Solid-State Electronics 12 The Semiconductor Bell Labs Kelly's Foresight
The Unpredictable Semiconductor 13 The Birth of the Transistor The
Flamboyant Genius Conceptualizing a Solid-State Triode Forging a Better
Semiconductor Discovery of the p-n Junction Roadblocks The Great
Breakthrough The Roll-Out . . . . . . And the Fight Shockley's Last Laugh
The Zeal of Teal and the Élan of Pfann Resolution 14 Launching the
Electronics Industry Sharing Technology New Players The Debut of Silicon
The Transistor Radio Japanese Pioneers The Transistor Era Begins 15 The
Dawn of Silicon Valley Wall Street Journal or Physical Review? Shockley and
the Traitorous Eight The Birth of Venture Capital The Changing of the Guard
16 The Integrated Circuit and the Chip Kilby and the First Integrated
Circuit Hoerni and the Planar Process Noyce and the Chip Fairchild and the
Silicon Valley Phenomenon 17 Chip Technology Blossoms The Early Market for
Chips Moore's Law Memory Chips Microprocessor-ENIAC on a chip The Personal
Computer Unleashed Ubiquitous Silicon 18 Evolution of the Electronics
Industry Competitors from Asia Computer-Aided Design The Foundries of
Taiwan Noyce, Moore, and Grove Turning Silicon Into Gold 19 LEDs, Fiber
Optics, and Liquid Crystal Displays Luminescent Semiconductors
Semiconductor Lasers Fiber Optic Communications Liquid Crystal Displays 20
The Information Age and Beyond Putting It All Together The Information
Revolution Globalization Looking Ahead Appendix I: Further Reading Appendix
II: Summary of Key "Conquerors of the Electron"