Books in the Sloan Technology series

Part of the "Sloan Foundation Technology Book" series, this book explores the forces that drive technological development along the specific paths that it takes, using the nuclear power industry as a recurrent case-study example, but drawing in other technologies, such as personal computers and software, and electrical power and space flight.

This book presents the history of the development of fibre optic technology, explaining the scientific challenges that needed to be overcome, the range of applications and future potential for this fundamental communications technology. The author has followed and reported the development closely for the past 20 years, and is better placed than anyone to write the definitive history of the field.