{"identifiers": {"goodreads": ["436895"], "librarything": ["282481"]}, "subtitle": "inspiring tales of the entrepreneurs and inventors who revolutionized modern business", "subject_place": ["United States"], "covers": [7447797], "lc_classifications": ["T21 .Y68 1998", "T21.Y68 1998"], "ocaid": "forbesgreatest00youn", "uri_descriptions": ["Contributor biographical information", "Publisher description", "Table of Contents"], "source_records": ["ia:forbesgreatest00youn", "ia:forbesgreatestte00youn", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part27.utf8:24289225:1162", "bwb:9780471243748", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-005.mrc:236445758:2100"], "title": "Forbes\u00ae greatest technology stories", "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "subjects": ["Inventions -- United States -- History", "Inventors -- United States -- History", "High technology -- United States -- History"], "publish_country": "nyu", "by_statement": "Jeffrey Young.", "oclc_numbers": ["39639988"], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "uris": ["http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley042/98030590.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley033/98030590.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix04/98030590.html"], "publishers": ["John Wiley & Sons"], "ia_box_id": ["IA120319"], "table_of_contents": [{"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "ch. 1. Pioneers & pirates: calculators & computers", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "ch. 2. Big blue: the mainframe computer", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "ch. 3. Quantum leap: transistors & semiconductors", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "ch. 4. Bits: memory, minicomputers & the mouse", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "ch. 5. Chips: integrated circuits & microprocessors", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "ch. 6. Mechanics: kits & microcomputers", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "ch. 7. Wireheads: the Apple computer", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "ch. 8. PCs: the IBM personal computer", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "ch. 9. Hard core: Windows", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "ch. 10. Airwaves: MCI & cell phones", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Webs: networks & the internet.", "pagenum": ""}], "dewey_decimal_class": ["609.73"], "physical_format": "Hardcover", "key": "/books/OL369902M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL231234A"}], "publish_places": ["New York"], "pagination": "xi, 368 p. :", "classifications": {}, "url": ["http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley042/98030590.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley033/98030590.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix04/98030590.html"], "notes": "Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-351) and index.", "number_of_pages": 368, "lccn": ["98030590"], "isbn_10": ["0471243744"], "publish_date": "1998", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL1928381W"}], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "In stories filled with human drama and high-tech excitement, Forbes Greatest Technology Stories takes you inside today's Digital Age business empires and introduces you to the dreamers and schemers, visionaries and moguls, and entrepreneurs and inventors who built them.\n\nBeginning in 1937, with the invention of the first crude electronic calculator by a renegade physics professor at the University of Iowa, and culminating with the Internet Wars on 1998, Jeffrey Young chronicles six decades of unbridled technological innovation and business genius.\n\nAnd he provides compelling portraits of entrepreneurs and inventors such as John Vincent Atanasoff, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Craig McCaw, as well as the little-known inventors, audacious also-rans, and magnificent failures whose pioneering efforts gave birth to the Digital Age."}, "latest_revision": 19, "revision": 19, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-14T03:33:44.389198"}}