AuthorNairn, Alasdair
TitleEngines that move markets : technology investing from railroads to the Internet and beyond / Alasdair Nairn
Imprint New York : Wiley, c2002
Descript xv, 485 p

CONTENT

Making tracks: the industrial revolution, canals, and railways -- Breaking out: the story of the U.S. railroads -- Investing at the speed of sound: how the telephone changed everything -- Lighting up: edison and the electric lamp -- Digging deep: the search for oil -- Driving forward: the history of the automobile -- Making waves: the story of wireless, form marconi to baird -- making it count: from adding machines to mainframes -- Processing power for all: the rise of the PC -- The Internet: how time-share computing became a reality -- Pathology of technology investing


SUBJECT

  1. Industries -- Finance

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