Engines that move markets : technology investing from railroads to the Internet and beyond /
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New York :
Wiley-Academy,
2002
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- Machine generated contents note: Foreword by Sir John Templeton
- Author's Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Making Tracks: The Industrial Revolution,
- Canals, and Railways
- Chapter 2 Breaking Out: The Story of the U.S. Railroads
- Chapter 3 Investing at the Speed of Sound:
- How the Telephone Changed Everything
- Chapter 4 Lighting Up: Edison and the Electric Lamp
- Chapter 5 Digging Deep: The Search for Oil
- Chapter 6 Driving Forward: The History of the Automobile
- Chapter 7 Making Waves: The Story of Wireless,
- from Marconi to Baird
- Chapter 8 Making It Count: From Adding Machines to Mainframes
- Chapter 9 Processing Power for All: The Rise of the PC
- Chapter 10 The Internet: How Time-Share Computing
- Became a Reality
- Chapter 11 The Pathology of Technology Investing
- Notes
- Index.