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Making Silicon Valley: Engineering Culture, Innovation, and Industrial Growth, 1930–1970

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

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Copyright © The Author(s) 2001. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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