Great feuds in technology : ten of the liveliest disputes ever / Hal Hellman.

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2004], ©2004.

viii, 248 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ned Ludd versus the industrial revolution : are machines the problem? -- Davy versus Stephenson : who invented the miner's safety lamp? -- Morse versus Jackson and Henry : the electromagnetic telegraph -- Edison versus Westinghouse : the AC/DC war -- Ford versus Selden and ALAM : automobile manufacturing -- Wright Brothers versus Curtiss, Chanute, Ader, Whitehead, and others : the first successful flying machine -- Sarnoff versus Farnsworth : the fathers of television -- Rickover versus Zumwalt (and just about everyone else) : nuclear submarines and a nuclear Navy -- Venter versus Collins : decoding the human genome -- Rifkin versus the Monsanto Company : battling the biotech world.