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De Forest, Lee. Father of Radio: The Autobiography of Lee de Forest. Chicago: Wilcox and Follett, 1950.
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Gieryn, Thomas F. Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Godfrey, Donald G. Philo T. Farnsworth: The Father of Television. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2001.
Graham, Margaret B. W. The Business of Research: RCA and the Video Disc. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Hounshell, David A., and Smith, John K.. Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R & D, 1902–1980. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Hughes, Thomas P. American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870–1970, 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Hughes, Thomas P. Elmer Sperry: Inventor and Engineer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971.
Israel, Paul. Edison: A Life of Invention. New York: John Wiley, 1998.
Jaffe, Adam B., and Trajtenberg, Manuel eds. Patents, Citations, and Innovations: A Window on the Knowledge Economy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.
Jenkins, Reese. Images and Enterprise: Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839 to 1925. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.
Jewkes, John, David, Sawers, and Stillerman, Richard. The Sources of Invention, 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.
Kevles, Daniel J. The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America. New York: Knopf, 1977.
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Miller, John A. Men and Volts at War: The Story of General Electric in World War II. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1947.
Ndiaye, Pap. Nylon and Bombs: Du Pont and the March of Modern America, trans. Forster, Elborg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Owen, David. Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough since Gutenberg: Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Reich, Leonard. The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876–1926. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.
Ruben, Samuel. Necessity’s Children: Memoirs of an Independent Inventor. Portland, OR: Breitenbush Books, 1990.
Temporary National Economic Committee. Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power: Hearings before the Temporary National Economic Committee, 31 vols. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1939–1941.
Whyte, William H. The Organization Man. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956.
Wise, George. Willis R. Whitney, General Electric, and the Origins of U.S. Industrial Research. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
Carlson, W. Bernard. “Innovation and the Modern Corporation: From Heroic Invention to Industrial Science.” In Science in the Twentieth Century, edited by Krige, John and Pestre, Dominique. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Harwood Academic, 1997: 203–26.
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“A Fortune for a Simple Invention.” Scientific American, August 8, 1914.
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