The future began 75 years ago this week with the invention of a device that’s seen as the most manufactured item in human history. The transistor was born in New Jersey on Dec. 16, 1947. This week, we ...
This image was lost some time after publication. This story about the Bell Telephone Laboratories picturephone appeared in the August 24, 1956 Hutchinson News-Herald (Hutchinson, KS). The entire ...
The 100th birthday of Bell Labs is January 1, 2025. Should we celebrate and applaud, or should we mourn the loss of an R&D national treasure? Tribute or eulogy? Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. -- ...
Chemist and inventor Walter Lincoln Hawkins was as notable for his scientific achievements— which include inventing durable coating for phone cables — as he was for being Bell Labs’ first Black ...
MURRAY HILL, N.J. (WHTM) — On this day in 1954, Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated the first practical solar panel. The emphasis here is on practical. The photovoltaic (or photoelectric) effect, ...
This long metal object has a metal frame with six windows across the front. A panel of switches is on one end. The component is part of a very large programmable calculator built by Bell Telephone ...
In 1948, Dr John Northrup Shive was developing transistor-like devices when he tried to use a beam of light instead of a wire as the emitter of a point contact transistor, which generated holes that ...
Research packet on Hand Set and Combined Set projects. Six publications Bell Laboratories and Henry Dreyfuss published by Bell Labs: Bell Laboratories Record, 1962, p.332-35, "The Industrial Designer, ...
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