Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age - Derek Cheung - Books - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - 9781442231535 - September 8, 2014
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Derek Cheung
Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age

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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 that all too often took place.

352 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released September 8, 2014
ISBN13 9781442231535
Publishers Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pages 352
Dimensions 163 × 234 × 30 mm   ·   660 g
Language English  

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