Forbes® greatest technology stories
Subtitle: inspiring tales of the entrepreneurs and inventors who revolutionized modern business
By: Jeffrey Young.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Inventions -- United States -- History; Inventors -- United States -- History; High technology -- United States -- History
Description: In stories filled with human drama and high-tech excitement, Forbes Greatest Technology Stories takes you inside today's Digital Age business empires and introduces you to the dreamers and schemers, visionaries and moguls, and entrepreneurs and inventors who built them.

Beginning in 1937, with the invention of the first crude electronic calculator by a renegade physics professor at the University of Iowa, and culminating with the Internet Wars on 1998, Jeffrey Young chronicles six decades of unbridled technological innovation and business genius.

And he provides compelling portraits of entrepreneurs and inventors such as John Vincent Atanasoff, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Craig McCaw, as well as the little-known inventors, audacious also-rans, and magnificent failures whose pioneering efforts gave birth to the Digital Age.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1. Pioneers & pirates: calculators & computers; title: ch. 2. Big blue: the mainframe computer; title: ch. 3. Quantum leap: transistors & semiconductors; title: ch. 4. Bits: memory, minicomputers & the mouse; title: ch. 5. Chips: integrated circuits & microprocessors; title: ch. 6. Mechanics: kits & microcomputers; title: ch. 7. Wireheads: the Apple computer; title: ch. 8. PCs: the IBM personal computer; title: ch. 9. Hard core: Windows; title: ch. 10. Airwaves: MCI & cell phones; title: Webs: networks & the internet.