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History of Tech

How scientists gave birth to the age of technology.

Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox
 

Charles D. Ellis

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006

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Photocopying is easy, but it took more than pushing a button to build Xerox; it took Joe Wilson.

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Inventing the Internet

Janet Abbate

MIT Press, 2000

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The history of the Internet isn’t just a story of a few visionary inventors; it is a remarkable saga of collaboration, as well as conflict, among a fascinating variety of people.

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Fire in the Valley
 

Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine

McGraw-Hill, 2000

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The Valley, of course, is Silicon Valley — the California hotbed that gave birth to the personal computer industry. And how? Well, big things from little transistors grow.

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A History of Modern Computing

Paul E. Ceruzzi

MIT Press, 2000

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That shiny computer on your desk is the newest child in a family lineage of computing machines going back to 1945. Plunge into this history to meet its grandpa (the UNIVAC) and grandma (the 1975, $400 Altair Personal Computer kit).

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