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Engines that move markets: technology investing from railroads to the Internet and beyond
2002, Wiley-Academy
in English
0471205958 9780471205951
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Table of Contents
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.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-485) and index.
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