TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gertner,Jon
TI  - The idea factory: Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation 
SN  - 9781594203282
U1  - 501 GER 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - Bell Telephone Laboratories
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Telecommunication
KW  - United States
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Creative ability
KW  - Inventors
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-412) and index; Introduction: Wicked problems -- Oil drops -- West to East -- System -- War -- Solid state -- House of magic -- The informationist -- Man and machines -- Formula -- Silicon -- Empire -- An instigator -- On Crawford Hill -- Futures, real and imagined -- Mistakes -- Competition -- Apart -- Afterlives -- Inheritance -- Echoes
N2  - Highlights achievements of Bell Labs as a leading innovator, exploring the role of its highly educated employees in developing new technologies while considering the qualities of companies where innovation and development are most successful
ER  -