The Business of Electronics

A Concise History
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-33042-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 207 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 3796 g

Electronics is an ever-changing field with an entrepreneurial spirit and a rich history, populated by some of the world's most famous companies and personalities. The Business of Electronics details the field's complex ecosystem in all its trials and tribulations. It looks at companies such as Apple, IBM, Samsung, and Nokia, as well as now-extinct companies such as Honeywell Bull (France) and Sinclair Computers (UK) that contributed to technology and business. Sethi shows us how a handful of US companies led the charge in designing equipment that could make millions of small, reliable components; how Nokia started in the timber business; the history of inventors like J.C. Bose, a pioneer in radio communication (who inadvertently made Guglielmo Marconi famous); and why there are numerous companies and creators that never made it or that we have never heard of. This all-encompassing book not only explores the vibrant history of electronics, it uses case studies to examine the companies and people that made history and explain how we ended up where we are today.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sethi, A Kumar

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsmathematik und -statistik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Early Years: Telegraphy and Telephony 3. Wireless and Radio 4. Television 5. World War II: Radar, Sonar, Cryptography, and Beyond 6. Computers and Computing 7. Media Recorders / Players. Mobile Phones, Smart Devices and Tablets 8. Computer Networks and the Internet 9. "Chips" and Displays Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anand Kumar Sethi is Managing Director of Applied Technology Services Pvt. Ltd., a leading Indian business consultancy, and an alumnus of the famous Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, with qualifications in Solid State Electronics. With forty five years of hands-on experience in the global electronics industry, he is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers and a Life Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA).