Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley 1
6. 1. California Boy, 1900–1924 11
7. 2. The Stanford Professor, 1925–1937 70
8. 3. Building Radio and Electronics, 1937–1941 131
9. 4. The Radio War, 1941–1946 186
10. 5. Jump-starting Engineering at Stanford, 1942–1949 253
11. 6. From Building a Discipline to Building a University, 1949–1959 300
12. 7. Raising Steeples at Stanford, 1958–1965 348
13. 8. “If I Had My Life to Live Over Again, I Would Play the Same Record,” 1965–1982 436
14. Epilogue: Building, Momentum, Waves, and Networks 498
15. A. Fred Terman’s Salary, 1925–1965 507
16. B. U.S. Patents of Fred Terman, 1930–1947 508
17. C. Amateur (“Ham”) Radio Operators at the Radio Research Laboratory 510
18. D. Stanford in the Rankings 513
19. Notes 519
20. Bibliography 595
21. Index 613