Lécuyer (Christophe) research materials, bulk 1990-2003

Printable guide [HTML]
Request items

Summary

Title:
Christophe Lécuyer research material on Silicon Valley history
Dates:
bulk 1990-2003
Abstract:
Academic research files and recorded interviews created by Christophe Lécuyer, a published historian of Silicon Valley high tech industries.
Extent:
28 Linear Feet (2 record cartons; 61 manuscript boxes; 1 extra tall manuscript box; 3 flat boxes). 1 manuscript box of computer media is closed until processed.
Language:
English , French .
Preferred citation:

[identification of item], Christophe Lécuyer research material on Silicon Valley history (M2278). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, California.

Background

Scope and content:

The scope of the collection includes Lécuyer's early career in academia during the 1990s, and as author of numerous publications about the history of business and technology in Silicon Valley. The bulk of materials within the collection is comprised of research notes, photocopied resource materials, presentations, and academic works by Lécuyer. The collection also includes recorded interviews (Series 2), most of which were conducted by Lécuyer with individuals who had significant roles in the early development of hi-tech industries in Silicon Valley with companies such as Litton Industries, Eimac, Varian Associates, Sprague & Mostek, and Fairchild Semiconductor. Some of his interview subjects provided photocopies of materials from their own papers, which are also in the collection. Lécuyer's interview notes, transcriptions (partial and full), and a limited amount of related correspondence are also included with this series. Excerpts of transcribed interviews, some of which are annotated by Lécuyer are interspersed throughout his research files (Series 3). The Palo Alto Daily Times newspaper clippings in Series 4 are a selection Lécuyer received from the publication relating to his research topics of interest. The collection also includes twenty-two 3.5 floppy diskettes and six Zip 100 disks containing files created by Lecuyer for his academic research and instruction, and his book, Silicon Valley Edge.

Biographical / historical:

Christophe Lécuyer (born 1963) is an economic analyst, author, and professor. He has written books on Fairchild Semiconductor and the history of Silicon Valley. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he earned his Ph.D. in history from Stanford University in 2002. He taught at Stanford and the University of Virginia and was a principal economic analyst at the University of California. Lécuyer published extensively on the history of electronics, instrumentation, and high tech manufacturing. He is the author of Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 (MIT Press, 2006) and (with David C. Brock) of Inventing the Digital World: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor from Startup to Microchip (MIT Press, 2010). Since 2013, he has been professor of the history of technology and chair of the undergraduate minor in business management at the Sorbonne Université in Paris, France.

Acquisition information:
This collection was gifted by Christophe Lécuyer to Stanford University, Special Collections in August, 2017.
Arrangement:

The collection is arranged in six series and according to its original order established by Lécuyer: Academic files, Research, Interviews, Palo Alto Daily Times, Objects, and Computer media.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Chris Doan with inventory and research assistance by Jerry Beersdorf.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-04-22 11:01:18 -0700 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research, with the exception of born-digital materials, which are closed until processed. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Terms of access:

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Preferred citation:

[identification of item], Christophe Lécuyer research material on Silicon Valley history (M2278). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, California.

Location of this collection:
Department of Special Collections, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6004, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022
specialcollections@stanford.edu
Website