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Review of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation | by Javier Escribano | Medium

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This is one of the greatest books I’ve ever read about innovation. I’ve loved every part of it. It’s long, sometimes it goes deep into technical explanations but Jon Gertner has done a really good job sharing the first steps, the world-changing innovations developed at Bell Labs and the end of it. www.amazon.com He writes about research, product and process innovation. All of them were key to the success of Bell Labs. Which are those innovations? Radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the operating systems Unix, Plan 9, the programming languages C, C++, the origin of Sig Sigma, the first TV transmission, the photovoltaic cell and the first modern solar cell, the first digital scrambled speech transmission system (used by the Allies in World War II), Hamming codes, modern cryptography, the first transatlantic telephone cable, the first semiconductors, communications satellites, Cosmic Microwave Background, first computer-animated

Review of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Javier Escribano 16 min read · Mar 26, 2017 -- 1 Listen Share This is one of the greatest books I’ve ever read about innovation. I’ve loved every part of it. It’s long, sometimes it goes deep into technical explanations but Jon Gertner has done a really good job sharing the first steps, the world-changing innovations developed at Bell Labs and the end of it. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the r

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