City of Light : The Story of Fiber Optics, Paperback by Hecht, Jeff, Brand Ne...-image

City of Light : The Story of Fiber Optics, Paperback by Hecht, Jeff, Brand Ne...

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gtin13: 9780195162554 Item Height: 0.9 in Genre: Technology & Engineering, Science Author: Jeff Hecht Edition: 2 Topic: Fiber Optics, History Format: Trade Paperback Publication Year: 2004 Language: English Item Weight: 18 Oz ISBN: 9780195162554 Illustrator: Yes Book Series: Sloan Technology Ser. Item Length: 9.4 in Item Width: 6.1 in Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated Number of Pages: 368 Pages Book Title: City of Light : the Story of Fiber Optics

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City of Light : The Story of Fiber Optics, Paperback by Hecht, Jeff, ISBN 0195162552, ISBN-13 9780195162554, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This paperback edition of a work first published by Oxford in 1999 has a new final chapter, on the second phase in fiber- optics, when stock in bandwith technology became overvalued and went bust in the late 1990s. Th is valuable for its clear descriptions of the technology while also tracing the careers and development of the people and companies that made this a dominant industry. Hecht, an engineer, writes on science and technology in the UK. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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