Engines that move markets
Subtitle: technology investing from railroads to the Internet and beyond
By: Alasdair Nairn
Edition: Second edition, fully revised & updated.
Publisher: Harriman House
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780857195999
Subjects: Industries; Technological innovations; Finance; History
Other titles: Technology investing from railroads to the Internet and beyond
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 2001."

Includes index.

"The classic investing book on the history of the next big thing"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: making sense of technology bubbles; title: Chapter 1: Making tracks: the industrial revolution, canals, and railways; title: Chapter 2: Breaking out: the story of the US railroads; title: Chapter 3: Investing at the speed of sound: 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 histoy of the automobile; title: Chapter 7: Making waves: the story of wireless, 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 computing timeshare became a global phenomenon; title: Chapter 11: The anatomy of technology investing.