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From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs?officially, the research and development wing of AT&T?was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, it?s hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn?t been touched by Bell Labs.Why did so many transformative ideas come from Bell Labs? In The Idea Factory, Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century?s most important inventions and delivers a riveting and heretofore untold chapter of American history. At its heart this is a story about the life and work of a small group of brilliant and eccentric men?Mervin Kelly, Bill Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and Bill Baker?who spent their careers at Bell Labs. Their job was to research and develop the future of communications. Small-town boys, childhood hobbyists, oddballs: they give the lie to the idea that Bell Labs was a grim cathedral of top-down command and
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