Building the Bell System
“The [Bell] System,” Danielian pointed out, “constitutes the largest aggregation of capital that has ever been controlled by a single private company at any time in the history of business. It is larger than the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and United States Steel Corporation put together. Its gross revenues of more than one billion dollars a year
... See moreJon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
