http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1810040753

Silicon Valley center of a modern renaissance, 1890s-1970s

Looks back at the history of the Silicon Valley region of California from the 1890s through the 1970s from the foundation of Stanford University to the rise of the semiconductor and microprocessor industries. Talented young scientists and engineers that emerged from Stanford University quickly formed the nucleus of an electronics industry. In this program, inventors of the disk drive, semiconductor and microprocessor, the founders of Intel, Netscape, Atari, Hewlett-Packard, Fairchild and Intuit, the former president of Stanford University and others discuss the synergy within this unique community that made innovation the number one product.

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