Download or read book Electronics, Computers and Telephone Switching : a Book of Technological History as Volume 2 : 1960-1985 of "100 Years of Telephone Switching." written by Robert J. Chapuis and published by Elsevier Science & Technology. This book was released on 1990 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardbound. The purpose of this book lies outside the usual framework of studies devoted to technology in a given branch of industry. Its main objective is to show how, in only two decades, the highly specialized telephone switching industry was completely transformed and how it revolutionized its manufacturing processes and its products, a phenomenon largely unknown to the public. The change was so drastic that it has been compared to the metamorphosis of the insect which progresses from the caterpillar phase to that of the butterfly.The second aim of the book is to show how the change occurred within the context of the major electronic revolution of recent decades, following the inventions of the transistor and integrated circuits.