Title Technological competitiveness : contemporary and historical perspectives on the electrical, electronics, and computer industries / edited by William Aspray.

Imprint

New York : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, c1993.

Location	Call Number	Status
Monograph Collection	HD9696.C62 T43 1993	AVAILABLE

Description	xix, 363 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Note	Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 10-11, 1991 at Rutgers University.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Technological strengths needs and feeds a new research infrastructure in Japan / Lennart Stenberg -- Progress in the electronic components industry in Japan after World War II / Yuzo Takahashi -- Review of the competitive status of the United States electronics industry / James E. Gover -- How the west was won : the military and the making of Silicon Valley / Stuart W. Leslie -- Big science, competitiveness, and the great chain of being / Robert W. Smith -- ICL and the American challenge : British government policies for the computer industry, 1949-1985 / Martin Cambell-Kelly -- From megaflops to total solutions : the changing dynamics of competitiveness in supercomputing / Boelie Elzen and Donald Mackenzie -- The strategy of system-building : telecommunications and the American South, 1885-1920 / Kenneth Lipartito.
	The Centre National d'Etude des Télécommunications and the competitiveness of the French telephone industry, 1945-1980 / Pascal Griset -- Comments on technological competitiveness in telecommunications, with emphasis on switching / Amos Joel -- Fighting for lighting and cooking : competing energy systems in Sweden, 1880-1960 / Arne Kaijser -- Oppositional uses of technology and corporate competition : the case of radio broadcasting / Susan Douglas -- The mechanization of urban transit in the United States : electricity and its competitors / Eric Schatzberg -- Technological systems compete at Otis : hydraulic versus electric elevators / Anne Millbrooke -- How they won the market : electric motors in competition with steam engines, 1890-1925 / Ulrich Wengenroth.
	Competition and consolidation in the electrical manufacturing industry / 1889-1892 / W. Bernard Carlson -- Competitiveness and electricity : electricté de France since 1946 / Alain Beltran -- Constructing competitiveness : the politics of engineering work in the French nuclear program, 1955-1969 / Gabrielle Hecht.
Subject(s)	Computer industry -- Congresses.
	Electronic industries -- Congresses.
	Electric industries -- Congresses.
	Competition, International -- Congresses.
Alternate Author	Aspray, William.