Making Silicon Valley
Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970
$70.86
- Paperback
408 pages
- Release Date
24 August 2007
Summary
In Making Silicon Valley, Christophe Lecuyer shows that the explosive growth of the personal computer industry in Silicon Valley was the culmination of decades of growth and innovation in the San Francisco-area electronics industry. Using the tools of science and technology studies, he explores the formation of Silicon Valley as an industrial district, from its beginnings as the home of a few radio enterprises that operated in the shadow of RCA and other East Coast firms through its establish…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262622110 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262622114 |
| Author: | Christophe Lécuyer |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 24 August 2007 |
| Weight: | 544g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Inside Technology |
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–Thomas P. Hughes, author of “Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture”
Making Silicon Valley is meatier than its contemporaries. Dense and replete with footnotes, it’s an expert book written for experts-readers who already know Robert Noyce from Gordon Moore. For them, it’s a detailed and nuanced discussion of how and why Silicon Valley emerged as a center of manufacturing, product engineering, and management.
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Christophe Lécuyer
Christophe Lecuyer is Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie and the author of Making Silicon Valley- Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 (MIT Press, 2005).
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