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- Title
Arc of Empire: The Federal Telegraph Company, the U.S. Navy, and the Beginnings of Silicon Valley.
- Authors
Adams, Stephen B.
- Abstract
The early history of Silicon Valley is incomplete unless it is framed within the context of American foreign policy. The Federal Telegraph Company, the region's first major high-technology firm, received its first contract from the U.S. Navy in 1913. Its subsequent success relied not only on navy contracts but also on State Department support and access to Bureau of Standards technology. The company's contributions to America's military-industrial complex began a pattern that would fuel the region's development and growth for more than a half century.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FEDERAL Telegraph Co.; HIGH technology industries; SILICON Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.); DEFENSE contracts; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY of the United States Navy; MILITARY-industrial complex
- Publication
Business History Review, 2017, Vol 91, Issue 2, p329
- ISSN
0007-6805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0007680517000630