Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Communities, Innovation, and Knowledge -- Chapter 2. Inventing a Community -- Chapter 3.Adopting, Adapting, Departing: Early STM at IBM and at Bell Labs -- Chapter 4. Variation and Selection: Probe Microscopy Comes to California -- Chapter 5. Digital Instruments: Commercialization in a Changing Community -- Chapter 6. Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology -- Appendix A: Abbreviations -- Appendix B: Interviews Conducted by the Author -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.