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THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE

6 books · By Marguerite Volland · Complete and free

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  1. THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 1

    4 parts · 12 h 31 min

    Palo Alto, 1930 to 1947. A university with more land than money, a professor who could not place his best students, and two of those students who had to leave California to find work. Frederick Terman read an article about a bridge circuit, handed the idea to William Hewlett, and said there might be a business in it.

  2. THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 2

    4 parts · 16 h 47 min

    Palo Alto, 1947 to 1970. A newly incorporated company of a hundred and eleven people, smaller than it had been during the war, spends twenty-three years turning a set of shop-floor habits into a written philosophy, and a hundred and eleven people into sixteen thousand.

  3. THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 3

    4 parts · 16 h 2 min

    Murray Hill and Mountain View, 1945 to 1957. William Shockley ran the Bell Telephone Laboratories group that made the transistor, was left off the patent, and spent a month at a hotel desk and a kitchen table inventing a better one.

  4. THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 4

    4 parts · 16 h 37 min

    Palo Alto and Mountain View, 1957 to 1968. Eight men leave a laboratory with no product, no plant and no capital, and within a year they are shipping the fastest silicon transistor in the world.

  5. THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 5

    4 parts · 15 h 1 min

    Santa Clara County, 1968 to 1985. Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore leave the division they built and incorporate another company on a page and a half of typing; Arthur Rock raises two and a half million dollars against it almost immediately. Andy Grove, who got out of Hungary in 1956, arrives to make the place run.

  6. THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 6

    4 parts · 12 h 53 min

    Santa Clara County, 1957 to 1986. Eight men walk out of a laboratory and find that California will not enforce the promise their employer thought he had. The reason is a sentence a New York lawyer drafted in 1865 and California adopted without discussion in 1872.