About this title: Consumer electronics and computers redefined life and work in the twentieth century. In Inventing the Electronic Century, Pulitzer Prize-winning business historian Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. traces their origins and worldwide development. From electronics prime mover RCA in the 1920s to Sony and Matsushita's dramatic rise in the 1970s; from IBM's ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 11/2001
ISBN-13:9780743215671ISBN:0743215672
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
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Description: Fine. 0743215672 Excellent Condition First Edition ~ 1st Printing Hard cover book with paper dust jacket cover! Remainder dash, Clean pages, Dust jacket has no tears, mild shelf rubs, this book is Near NEW! Shop & Save With US. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780743215671ISBN:0743215672
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. 0743215672 Minor creasing to front panel of dust jacket. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 2005-04-15
ISBN-13:9780674018051ISBN:0674018052
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Description: New in New jacket. pp. 321. No industries had greater impact on everyday life & work in the second half of the 20th century than consumer electronics & computers. This book records the origins & evolution of these transforming industries. Shows where, when, how, & by whom technical knowledge was initially commercialized. Describes how RCA shaped the consumer electronics industry from its beginnings in the 1920s to the 1960s. Explains how catastrophic mgmt. decisions that brought about the ... read more
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Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Free Press, New York
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780743215671ISBN:0743215672
Description: VG in VG+ jacket. 321 pp., appendices, notes, index. Top and bottom spine, bottom corners bumped, front endpapers stained, dj slight edgewear, creased inside front cover. read more
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