Conquering the Electron
The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
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Conquering the Electron offers listeners 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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- Avid Reader
- 07-08-24
Great over view of the discovery and use of the e-
A comprehensive history of the discovery, understanding and control of the electron. It's fascinating to find out about these developments and the controversies which always make science so human. The main reason I'm writing this review is to counter the review which says this book doesn't give credit to the discoverers or is America-centric. I could not disagree more. Full credit is given to the discoverers/innovators whatever their nationality. In addition it was very interesting to hear the views (where appropriate) of the authors dealings with some of the big names in this book
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- Nikolay
- 14-02-23
Excellent!
an excellent book from an author who made a deep research in history and understands phydics
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- Neil
- 21-07-24
Fantastic work and performance.
One interesting fact missing from the Magnetron Story is that it was carried as hand luggage across the Atlantic on a passenger liner and not by the Royal Navy.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-01-24
science, history and business in one
unbelievable detail of how the science of it all affected everyone commercially, politically and personally over the last 200 years
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- DRW
- 19-04-21
Amazing
Brilliantly written, and clinically narrated. It just flowed and was very listenable.
There was an almost perfect mix of technical detail and storytelling.
Thank you!
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- Amdraz
- 16-09-21
Absolutely outstanding
A thorough and detailed examination of the history, science and technology around humanities relationship with the electron. I listened at 1.1x playback speed as I found the narration a little too considered. Otherwise excellent.
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- Chris
- 31-03-24
A must-read for anyone interested in electronics
Everything electronic in one amazing book. Telegraph, telephone, transistors, television, radio, radar, calculators, computers, consumer electronics, RCA, Intel, Texas Instruments, Sharp, Sony, TSMC etc etc
A perfect book that is precisely detailed with just the right amount of information to do every subject and story justice.
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- kris clark
- 19-08-23
boring writing style and Americanized
lasted 5 hours before I couldn't listen anymore. it has a simplistic and boring writing style. The narrator is trying to be carl sagen but without the wonder instilling enthusiasm. the book is a highly americanized butt kissing and back patting bore. example talks explicitly about Eddison and negates Tesla and calls him westinghouse. it is also business and economic oriented, science is a side note
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