...Kanigel Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson Preface Technology is the application of science, engineering,...perspective on the present and inform the future. The Foundation has been guided in its development of the Sloan Technology Series by a distinguished...

...virtually every aspect of human endeavor: private and public institutions, economic systems, communication networks, political structures, international affiliations,...perspective on the present and inform the future. The Foundation has been guided in its development of the Sloan Technology Series by a distinguished...

...Technology Series, of which the present volume is a part, seeks to present to the general reader the story of the development of critical twentiethcentury technologies....perspective on the present and inform the future. John Armstrong, Simon Michael Bessie, Samuel Y. Gibbon, Thomas P. Hughes, Victor McElheny, Robert K....

...Technology Series, of which the present volume is a part, seeks to present to the general reader the story of the development of critical twentieth-century technologies....perspective on the present and inform the future. The Foundation has been guided in its development of the Sloan Technology Series by a distinguished...