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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

| September 2012

Review of <em>The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation</em> by Jon Gertner

In The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, author Jon Gertner describes, in a new and compelling way, the inner workings of arguably one of the greatest industrial research organizations of the 20th century.

Gertner, who has written for the New York Times Magazine, traces the roots of Bell Labs primarily through a half dozen brilliant scientists and engineers and technically visionary leaders who gave birth to some of the defining communications and computer technologies of our time....

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For Academic Citation: Narayanamurti, Venkatesh. “The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation.” Physics Today, vol. 65. no. 9. September 2012,
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