

Conquering the Electron
The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
Author: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
Unabridged: 14 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 03/01/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Science, Physics, Electricity
Synopsis
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.