Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age - Softcover

Cheung, Derek; Brach, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493049925 ISBN 13: 9781493049929

Verlag: Lyons Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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 smart phone and the iPad.

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Dr. Derek Cheung is a scientist turned businessman with a lifetime of experience in the fields of science and technology. He received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in the same field from Stanford. Derek spent four years working as a research engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor, the company that gave birth to Silicon Valley, before making a career as president and CEO of Rockwell Scientific, a successful high-tech company transformed from a major corporate R&D lab. He lives in Thousand Oaks, California. Eric Brach is a lecturer in English at West Los Angeles College in Culver City, California. He is the author of Billy “the Hill” and the Jump Hook and has been a contributor to national magazines, newspapers, and academic journals, including Bleacher Report, Box Office, and The Onion. He lives in Culver City, California.

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• Verlag: Lyons Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1493049925
• ISBN 13: 9781493049929
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360
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