In 1966, recent art college grad, John F. Tyson, became the first industrial designer hired by Northern Electric, Bell Canada's modest manufacturing arm. In 2000, he retired as vice-president of advanced technology for Nortel, then the world's leading supplier of communications networks. Adventures in Innovation-Inside the Rise and Fall of Nortel chronicles John F. Tyson's journey from student to senior executive when an entirely new world of human communications came into being. He traces the development of corporate identity, vision, and activities of Bell-Northern Research (BNR),...
In 1966, recent art college grad, John F. Tyson, became the first industrial designer hired by Northern Electric, Bell Canada's modest manufacturing a...
