The Idea Factory, written by John Gertner, covers the almost inconceivable amount of innovation that came out of Bell Labs from the turn of last century to the

The Idea Factory, written by John Gertner, covers the almost inconceivable amount of innovation that came out of Bell Labs from the turn of last century to the 1980s. The names of the people who worked there reads like a text of 20th century physics, electrical engineering, and computer science.