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Focuses on the human factors behind the invention of the transistor, highlighting the pride and scientific ambitions of the team who spawned the epoch-making technology

Paperback:

9780393318517 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Focuses on the human factors behind the invention of the transistor, highlighting the pride and scientific ambitions of the team who spawned the epoch-making technology

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Product Description: "Without the invention of the transistor, I'm quite sure that the PC would not exist as we know it today."―Bill Gates On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium...read more

Hardcover:

9780393041248 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Focuses on the human factors behind the invention of the twentieth century's defining artifact, the transistor, highlighting the pride, jealousy, and scientific ambitions of the Bell Labs team who spawned the epoch-making technology

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786113750 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1998), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: "Without the invention of the transistor, I'm quite sure that the PC would not exist as we know it today.

By Laurene Krasny Brown (editor), Max Dresden (editor), Lillian Hoddeson (editor) and Michael Riordan (editor)

Hardcover:

9780521570824 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $155.00

Paperback:

9780521578165 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 13, 1997, cover price $69.99

Paperback:

9781883178109 | Brick House Pub Co, October 1, 1996, cover price $20.00
9780931790706 | Reissue edition (Chelsea Green Pub Co, July 1, 1996), cover price $20.00

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Explores recent research into dark matter and its impact on the composition of the universe and the motions of galaxies, and describes efforts to determine what dark matter might be

Hardcover:

9780716721574 | W H Freeman & Co, March 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Explores recent research into dark matter and its impact on the composition of the universe and the motions of galaxies, and describes efforts to determine what dark matter might be

Paperback:

9780716723660, titled "The Shadows of Creation: Dark Matter and the Structure of the Universe" | Reprint edition (W H Freeman & Co, September 1, 1992), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Explores recent research into dark matter and its impact on the composition of the universe and the motions of galaxies, and describes efforts to determine what dark matter might be

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Shows how modern physicists, with the aid of powerful particle chambers, were able to establish the existence of the quark, the particle inside the proton and neutron components of the atom's nucleus

Hardcover:

9780671504663 | Touchstone Books, September 1, 1987, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Shows how modern physicists, with the aid of powerful particle chambers, were able to establish the existence of the quark, the particle inside the proton and neutron components of the atom's nucleus

Paperback:

9780671648848 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1987, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Shows how modern physicists, with the aid of powerful particle chambers, were able to establish the existence of the quark, the particle inside the proton and neutron components of the atom's nucleus

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