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This is awesome content. Any chance you have a book you could recommend on this subject?
by TheColorYellow 7y ago
This is awesome content. Any chance you have a book you could recommend on this subject?
- jdsnape 7y agoIt’s mentioned below, but ‘The Idea Factory‘ covers Bell labs and is an excellent read.
- kick 7y agoThe title is bad enough that I won't mention it, but the alternative title is good (and will find you the book): 'The Criminal Wrecking of the Best Telephone System in the World' by Kraus and Duerig.
- jcrawfordor 7y agoBoth siblings name the books that I would most likely to recommend. Also, Steve Call's "The Deal of the Century" and "Telephone: The First Hundred Years," John Brooks. The latter is a 1976 book which was commissioned by AT&T as a corporate history. As a result it is both outdated and paints a rather rosy picture[1], but I think that's part of what makes that book rather interesting - it's sort of AT&T's best version of itself at the peak of its dominance. [1] for what it's worth, John Brooks engages right in the introduction with the conflict of a history funded by its subjects, and the book was researched and written independently