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Much Ado About Almost
Nothing by Hans Camenzind
$23 amazon.com/dp/1949267962
You may recognize Hans Camenzind’s name
as the inventor of the 555 timer chip. What
you may not know is that he was a uniquely
talented writer.
Five years before his death in 2012, he
published Much Ado About Almost Nothing,
which I regard as the most fascinating,
revelatory, and enlightening history of
electricity and electronics ever written. Based
on a huge amount of research, it documents
the ambitions, struggles, successes and (in
some cases) tragedies of brilliant men who
used the ...