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Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond  (0471205958) cover image
Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond
ISBN: 978-0-471-20595-1
Hardcover
512 pages
January 2002
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Foreword by: Sir John Templeton.

Authoršs 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.
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