He overcame decades of tradtion to make railroading safer for everyone. Then he outmaneuvered America’s greatest inventor to establish our modern system of electric power.
WHEN CBS AND RCA battled to establish the standard for color TV technology, they used all the weapons at their disposal: propaganda, lawsuits, Washington lobbying, and, above all, furious struggle in their engineering labs
WALTER VINCENTI has had whole careers both as a cutting-edge aeronautical engineer and as a leading historian of technology. Looking back over them, he discusses what his dual vantage point has taught him about how technological innovation works.
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