first edition Hardcover
1994 · New York
by NEBEKER, Frederik
New York: IEEE Press, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 268pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Glossy pictorial boards. Contributions by William Aspray, Andrew Goldstein and David L. Morton, Jr. Covers slightly rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped, very good, lacking a dust jacket as issued. A personal typed letter signed from someone who worked on the book ("Linda") is laid in. A biographical text of groundbreaking technological contributions made by eight of the 20th century's most "direction-setting" engineers, including Ernst Weber, Herman P. Schwan, Charles Townes, Gordon Teal, Thelma Estrin and others. (Inventory #: 114976)