Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age. It's a history of electronic invention over the pa

Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age. It's a history of electronic invention over the past 150 years. Not the best from a historiographical point of view, but very insightful for getting inside of the minds of those who developed the technology, and getting a sense of the tech itself, the mental steps required to invent it, and the personalities of those involved.