Started in the 1920s as Bell Labs, the official research and development arm of AT&T, this book delves into the people that made this lab so effective. This is the group that developed the transistor and lasers, digital and cellular telecommunications. There aren't many factors of today's society that has not been impacted by their inventions. But who were these people and why were they so successful in innovation? That is the question that this books really looks into.
I read this for book club and wanted to like it. I'm always interested in how people come up with brilliant ideas but the way the information was presented was dull and boring. There were pieces that were interesting but it never sucked me in and it felt like it couldn't decide between trying to focus on the people that made it happen or the technology that they developed and so varied between the two which kept it from working well.
Page count: 432p/1,772p ytd/276,247p lifetime
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