Bell Labs
Murray Hill innovators
Bell Labs is the research and development division of AT&T, responsible for some of the twentieth century's most consequential technological innovations—the transistor, the laser, Unix, the C programming language, and foundational work in information theory.
For decades it was the world's premier industrial research facility, winning multiple Nobel Prizes.
Bell Labs invented the transistor in 1947.
Telecommunications conglomerate
- divestitureDisposal of assets
- breakupRomantic relationship's termination
- NokiaFinnish telecom corporation
- antitrustAgainst corporate market dominance
long-distance · transatlantic cable · government oversight · 1925 · spinoff · deregulation
Semiconductor signal switch
- laserConcentrated light device
- UNIXBell Labs OS
- solar cellLight-to-current converter
- communication satelliteOrbiting signal relay station
fiber optics · waveguide · talking movies · radio astronomy · stereo sound · fax machine · touch-tone phone · modem
Mathematics of encoding signals
- physicsScience of matter and energy
- mathematicsScience of quantity and structure
- materials scienceStudy of engineered substances
- quantum mechanicsPhysics at nanoscopic scales
acoustics · statistics · scientific papers · applied research · prototyping · empirical studies
AT&T
Telecommunications conglomerate
- divestitureDisposal of assets
- breakupRomantic relationship's termination
- NokiaFinnish telecom corporation
antitrust · long-distance · transatlantic cable · government oversight · 1925 · spinoff · deregulation
transistor
Semiconductor signal switch
- laserConcentrated light device
- UNIXBell Labs OS
- solar cellLight-to-current converter
communication satellite · fiber optics · waveguide · talking movies · radio astronomy · stereo sound · fax machine · touch-tone phone · modem · LED
information theory
Mathematics of encoding signals
- physicsScience of matter and energy
- mathematicsScience of quantity and structure
- materials scienceStudy of engineered substances
quantum mechanics · acoustics · statistics · scientific papers · applied research · prototyping · empirical studies
Shockley
Transistor co-inventor
- laureatesCelebrated prize recipients
- corporate research facilitiesDeepMind
- telecommunicationscell phone, cellphone, signals, cellular network, telephone calls
- American InnovationEdison, Thomas Edison, Silicon Valley, Wright brothers, Henry Ford
- Computing HistoryENIAC, UNIVAC, mainframe, mainframes, punch card
- research facilitieslaboratories, labs, research center, research institute, research labs
- Research Institutionsresearch institute, research university, learned society, research hospital, NIH
Bell LabsMIT
Cambridge research university
Stanford University · Harvard · Cambridge University · Princeton · university research
Bell Labscopycats
People who mimic others
startup incubator · imitators · agile development · patent trolls · minimum viable product
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