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Bell Telephone Laboratories
Bell Telephone Laboratories (BTL), also known as Bell Labs,
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell and Nokia Bell Labs,
is an American research and scientific
development company.
The company was established in 1925 as a consolidation of
Western Electric Research Laboratories
and part of the engineering department of the
American Telephone & Telegraph company (AT&T).
At the time, the company shares were evenly divided between
AT&T
and Western Electric Company (WE)
[1].
Over the years, Bell Labs has been known under a wide variety of names
and has been owned by various parent companies,
including AT&T and Lucent Technologies.
Since 2016, Bell Labs is owned by the
Finnish company Nokia,
and is currently known as Nokia Bell Labs, with the logo:
Engineers and researchers of Bell Labs are responsible for many important developments
and/or inventions, such as radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the
charge-coupled device (CCD), the photovoltaic cell, the Unix operating system
and the programming languages C and C++.
During WWII, Bell labs developed the
unbreakable telephony system SIGSALY
for the Allied Forces.
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Bell Labs equipment on this website
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- Volta Laboratory
- Volta Bureau
- Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory
- Bell Carriage House
- Bell Laboratory
- Bell Telephone Laboratories
- Bell Telephone Labs
- Bell Labs
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- AT&T Bell Labs
- Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovations
- Nokia Bell Labs
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Over the years, Bell Labs has been owned by the following companies:
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- AT&T and Western Electric
- AT&T
- Lucent Technologies
- Alcatel Lucent
- Nokia
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