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Bell Laboratories
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AT&T establishes Bell Laboratories to consolidate research and development for the Bell System's telephone companies.

Technology, 1947

The transistor (initially known simply as a solid-state amplifier) demonstrated December 23 by Bell Laboratories physicists William Shockley, 38, John Bardeen, 40, and Walter H. Brattain, 46, will replace the glass vacuum tube pioneered by Bell Labs physicist H. D. Arnold in 1912. The tiny but rugged three-electrode transistor will permit miniaturization of electronic devices such as computers, radios, and television sets and lead to the development of guided missiles.

Energy, 1954

A solar battery developed by Bell Laboratories makes it possible to convert sunlight directly to electric power.

Technology, 1955

The mesa introduced by Bell Telephone Laboratories is a new kind of transistor

Technology, 1984

Bell Laboratories announces December 20 that it has perfected a one-megabit random access memory chip able to store on a tiny sliver of silicon four times as much information as anything now available.

The founder of Xerox, Chester F. Carlsonm went to University of Riverside then Caltech in 1930 bachelor of science in physics worked as a research engineer at Bell Labs in NYC for $35 a week.

• Claude Shannon worked at Bell Labs
• 25,000 employees
• original Alexander Graham Bell laboratory was located on 5 Exeter Place
• As of 1995 Bell Labs remains a scientific hothouse, with a US$3 billion total budget - $2.7 billion for development and $300 million for research. It is the richest and largest private research lab in the world, still leading in fields as diverse as photonics, fiber optics, HDTV, artificial intelligence, cellular telephony, digital radio, and computer software.

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