Lillian Hoddeson is an historian at the University of Illinois and lives in Urbana. Research for Crystal Fire was sponsored by the Sloan Foundation. Stanford University physicist Michael Riordan has written several popular books on science and technology. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Hoddeson, a leading scholar on the history of solid state physics, has teamed up with Stanford University physicist Riordan to give us a history of the invention of the transistorÄthe basic building block of the Information Age. The book includes insight into the theorists and engineers at Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Texas InstrumentsÄthe egos and petty office politics that accompanied the invention. The only problem with this definitive history is that the average listener may find it too technical. However, it's an ideal recording for college-level science students or those who want to know how the greatest technological revolution in history occurred; this is the story of Silicon Valley. Ably narrated by Dennis McKee, this is recommended to university and other libraries with a high-tech-oriented clientele.ÄJames Dudley, Westhampton Beach, NY Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
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