A very detailed book about an inventive, enthusiastic electrical engineer with some brilliance and recklessness, who worked for the NSA, and developed a cryogenic switch that was outpaced by the integrated circuit after his untimely death, that may have been caused by his recklessness, or because of his NSA work, or just bad luck, it's a mystery the book can't pin down or let go of, you decide. Lots of references to WW 2 and cold war era tech projects funded by the US government. The primary author is a Brit, which is confirmed by the use of "second" as a verb, and also authored by Dudlay Buck's son.… (altro)
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