Engines that move markets : technology investing from railroads to the Internet and beyond /

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Glavni autor: Nairn, Alasdair G. M.
Format: Sách giấy
Izdano: 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.