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The colorful true stories of ten monumental feuds in the history of technology The history of technology is full of heated disputes over who, exactly, invented what. In this encore to his international bestsellers Great Feuds in Science and Great Feuds in Medicine, Hal Hellman brings to life ten of technology's most celebrated quarrels. Whether illuminating the battles between Philo Farnsworth and RCA (television), and Samuel Morse and Joseph Henry (telegraph) or the feuds currently raging over nuclear submarines and genetically modified foods, Hellman clearly explains the technology involved while providing vivid portraits of the disputants and their times. Hal Hellman (Leonia, NJ) is the author of numerous science books, including Great Feuds in Science (0-471-35066-4) and Great Feuds in Medicine (0-471-20833-7).
Contents
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Ned Ludd versus the Industrial Revolution; Are Machines the Problem?; 2. Davy versus Stephenson; Who Invented the Miner's Safety Lamp?; 3. Morse versus Jackson and Henry; The Electromagnetic Telegraph; 4. Edison versus Westinghouse; The AC/DC War; 5. Ford versus Selden and ALAM; Automobile Manufacturing; 6. Wright Brothers versus Curtiss, Chanute, Ader, Whitehead, and Others; The First Successful Flying Machine; 7. Sarnoff versus Farnsworth; The Fathers of Television; 8. Rickover versus Zumwalt (and Just about Everyone Else); Nuclear Submarines and a Nuclear Navy; 9. Venter versus Collins; Decoding the Human Genome; 10. Rifkin versus the Monsanto Company; Battling the Biotech World; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
