MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2002280104
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050 00 $aHG4011$b.N344 2002
100 1 $aNairn, Alasdair G. M.
245 10 $aEngines that move markets :$btechnology investing from railroads to the Internet and beyond /$cAlasdair Nairn.
260 $aNew York :$bWiley-Academy,$cc2002.
300 $axvii, 494 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 481-485) and index.
505 8 $aMachine 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.
650 0 $aIndustries$xFinance.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley044/2002280104.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley036/2002280104.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/wiley022/2002280104.html