
Conquering the Electron
The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
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Eric Jason Martin
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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Maybe the best insight I have gained from reading
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absolutely amazing! one the best books ever!
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Many interesting plots I didn't know about!
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Electrons and society.
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The book was published in 2010. Normally that is too old for a technology book. But this is a history book and fascinating.
Great journey!
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A unbiased and enjoyable history of electronics
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Amazing
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Excellent dive into the science of today's tec
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The reader fits the subject. One reviewer thought he sounds like Carl Sagan. I do hear Sagan's speech patterns but I hear a touch of Rod Serling of The Twilight Zone, so that's cool to.
My new favorite non fiction.
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You get to meet all the famous and infamous personalities that gave us our current knowledge of the electron. Men like Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, Guglielmo Marconi, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and many others. You get to trace the very beginnings from the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle by professor J.J. Thomson in 1897. To our current technology today and all the pieces in between. This is a great audio book and just fun to listen to. I highly recommend this audio book if you enjoy learning.
Historical & Scientific voyage perfection
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