Engines that move markets
Subtitle: technology investing from railroads to the Internet and beyond
By: Alasdair Nairn.
Publisher: Wiley-Academy
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
Subjects: Industries -- Finance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-485) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword by Sir John Templeton; title: Author's Introduction; title: Acknowledgments; title: Chapter 1 Making Tracks: The Industrial Revolution,; title: Canals, and Railways; title: Chapter 2 Breaking Out: The Story of the U.S. Railroads; title: Chapter 3 Investing at the Speed of Sound:; title: How the Telephone Changed Everything; title: Chapter 4 Lighting Up: Edison and the Electric Lamp; title: Chapter 5 Digging Deep: The Search for Oil; title: Chapter 6 Driving Forward: The History of the Automobile; title: Chapter 7 Making Waves: The Story of Wireless,; title: from Marconi to Baird; title: Chapter 8 Making It Count: From Adding Machines to Mainframes; title: Chapter 9 Processing Power for All: The Rise of the PC; title: Chapter 10 The Internet: How Time-Share Computing; title: Became a Reality; title: Chapter 11 The Pathology of Technology Investing; title: Notes; title: Index.