Bell Labs
Bell Laboratories (or Bell Labs) is part of the French company Alcatel-Lucent which in turn is owned by Nokia. It is a research subsidiary of the company, and is based in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States.
| Private (Subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent) | |
| Industry | Information technology |
| Founded | 1925 |
| Headquarters | Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States |
| Parent | AT&T/Western Electric (1925-1983) AT&T (1984-1996) Lucent (1996-2006) Alcatel-Lucent (2006-present) |
AT&T created Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1925. It works on creating new things. Bell Labs in the 20th century did much scientific research. Work done there has won seven Nobel Prizes.
Bell Labs Media
Bell's 1893 Volta Bureau building in Washington, D.C.
The Bell Laboratories Building, built at 463 West Street in New York City in 1925
The Old Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, located about 20 miles south of New York City, in New Jersey
Whippany Bell Labs was an AT&T location from the mid-1920s until 1996. Lucent Technologies from 1996 to 2006 and Alcatel-Lucent from 2006 to 2009 (closure). The buildings were sold and demolished in 2010, except for two buildings repurposed for Bayer Healthcare.
Reconstruction of the directional antenna used in the discovery of radio emission of extraterrestrial origin by Karl Guthe Jansky at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1932
A replica of the first transistor, a point-contact germanium device, invented at Bell Laboratories in 1947
The patent for the electret microphone, an invention by Gerhard Sessler and James West
Logo used from 1969 until 1983, featuring the icon designed by Saul Bass
The charge-coupled device was invented by George E. Smith and Willard Boyle.
The C programming language was developed in 1972.
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Other websites
- Official site Archived 2013-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
