出版社: Penguin Press
副标题: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
出版年: 2012-3-15
页数: 422
定价: GBP 18.75
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781594203282
内容简介 · · · · · ·
A sweeping, atmospheric history of Bell Labs that highlights its unparalleled role as an incubator of innovation and birthplace of the century's most influential technologies. Bell Laboratories, which thrived from the 1920s to the 1980s, was the most innovative and productive institution of the twentieth century. Long before America's brightest scientific minds began migratin...
A sweeping, atmospheric history of Bell Labs that highlights its unparalleled role as an incubator of innovation and birthplace of the century's most influential technologies. Bell Laboratories, which thrived from the 1920s to the 1980s, was the most innovative and productive institution of the twentieth century. Long before America's brightest scientific minds began migrating west to Silicon Valley, they flocked to this sylvan campus in the New Jersey suburbs built and funded by AT&T. At its peak, Bell Labs employed nearly fifteen thousand people, twelve hundred of whom had PhDs. Thirteen would go on to win Nobel prizes. It was a citadel of science and scholarship as well as a hotbed of creative thinking. It was, in effect, a factory of ideas whose workings have remained largely hidden until now. "New York Times Magazine" writer Jon Gertner unveils the unique magic of Bell Labs through the eyes and actions of its scientists. These ingenious, often eccentric men would become revolutionaries, and sometimes legends, whether for inventing radio astronomy in their spare time (and on the company's dime), riding unicycles through the corridors, or pioneering the principles that propel today's technology. In these pages, we learn how radar came to be, and lasers, transistors, satellites, mobile phones, and much more. Even more important, Gertner reveals the forces that set off this explosion of creativity. Bell Labs combined the best aspects of the academic and corporate worlds, hiring the brightest and usually the youngest minds, creating a culture and even an architecture that forced employees in different fields to work together, in virtually complete intellectual freedom, with little pressure to create moneymaking innovations. In Gertner's portrait, we come to understand why both researchers and business leaders look to Bell Labs as a model and long to incorporate its magic into their own work. Written with a novelist's gift for pacing and an ability to convey the thrill of innovation, "The Idea Factory" yields a revelatory take on the business of invention. What are the principles of innovation? How do new technology and new ideas begin? Are some environments more favorable than others? How should they be structured, and how should they be governed? Can strokes of genius be accelerated, replicated, standardized? The history of Bell Labs provides crucial answers that can and should be applied today by anyone who wants to understand where good ideas come from.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
I’m a book author and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and I tend to describe myself as both a journalist and historian. In addition to the Sunday Magazine, my writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Wired, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Technology Review and Fast Company. Usually I write about science, nature...
I’m a book author and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and I tend to describe myself as both a journalist and historian. In addition to the Sunday Magazine, my writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Wired, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Technology Review and Fast Company. Usually I write about science, nature, technology, and business. But oftentimes my articles explore the intersections between all those areas. At least to me, that’s where the most interesting things happen.
My first book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, was published by Penguin Press in 2012. The Ice at the End of the World, my new book, is being published by Random House and chronicles 150 years of exploration and investigation on the Greenland ice sheet. The book was conceived as a story about ice and the process of scientific discovery; it aims to explain how the work in Greenland, aided by an evolving array of technological tools, has led us to a profound understanding of our current climate crisis. In truth, I like to think the book might be more than that. The story of Greenland’s ice sheet—the world’s largest laboratory—includes hair-raising tales of adventure and frostbite; a cast of characters who suffered misery on an almost unimaginable level; and a number of scientists who perceived in the ice a method to decipher clues to the ancient and future earth. It’s a human saga, in other words, as well as an epic of nature.
I live in New Jersey with my wife and kids. I’m a lifelong New Jersey native, in fact—my father was a medical school professor and my mother taught first grade—and I grew up in the town of Berkeley Heights, not far from where I live now.
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0 有用 Eric 2018-05-06 22:31:44
贝尔实验室传奇创新故事
0 有用 廖芜 2020-07-25 11:27:42
太过细碎的描写方式,最后一章对于Bell Lab究竟有什么特殊,总算有那么一点提纲挈领的意思,和之前的章节总算联系了起来。
0 有用 粤儿 2015-12-16 19:08:59
apple-like company
0 有用 J.X 2019-09-13 22:06:00
2.monopoly X long term inno. forced to share patent freely bad for Bell good for industry 4 bell lab / start up?jury is still out 5.transistor: contact point vs. junction 6.satellite: buloon demo 7.... 2.monopoly X long term inno. forced to share patent freely bad for Bell good for industry 4 bell lab / start up?jury is still out 5.transistor: contact point vs. junction 6.satellite: buloon demo 7.optical fiber(Corning) vs. wave guide tube(Bell no ceramics expertise) 8."idea + plan + timing" innovation 9.telecom /computer converge? (展开)
0 有用 Heather的冬天 2014-01-08 12:13:52
推荐给学物理的,做通讯的,做计算机的,做测试的,以及受益于这个伟大的实验室的所有人读。什么叫人类的群星闪耀时?