--- status: To Read date_finished: title: The Idea Factory subtitle: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation description: The history of Bell Labs, America's greatest incubator of innovation categories: - Non-fiction - Business authors: - [[Jon Gertner]] published_on: 2012-03-15 publisher: Penguin pages: 434 isbn: 1101561084 cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uOMt_XCo81QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api local_cover: 50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/The Idea Factory (book).jpg link: https://amzn.to/4hajgWv tags: - type/book - books - summaries - zone/areas - zone/areas/literature_notes created: 2025-01-11T13:15 updated: 2026-04-01T14:42 public_note: true --- # The Idea Factory (book) - Author(s): [[Jon Gertner]] - Link: https://amzn.to/4hajgWv ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/The Idea Factory (book).jpg|200]] ## Description The fascinating story of Bell Labs and AT&T. ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[The Idea Factory (book)]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Key ideas ... ## Chapter 1: ... ... ## References -