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The engineering departments of AT&T and Western Electric Company were centralized in NYC. Bell Labs' primary task was developing telecommunications equipment and systems that were manufactured by AT&T
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The first of many Nobel Prizes for Bell Labs, achieved by Clinton Davisson, for demonstrating that electrons display both wave and particle characteristics
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The laboratories invent the first transistor which is a semiconductor device for amplifying, controlling, and generating electrical signals. This was a huge accomplishment as transistors are deeply embedded in almost everything electronic and have become the nerve cells of the Information Age
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Researchers John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William B. Shockley the Nobel Prize for Physics after inventing the transistor
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Bell Labs developed the electronic telephone-switching system and designed Telstar which was the world's first satellite communications system
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The CO2 laser was one of the very first gas lasers to be developed by Kumar Patel
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A. Michael Noll invents a tactile force-feedback system along with an interactive stereoscopic computer display
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Dennis Ritchie develops the language C as a replacement for the interpreted language B. Marc Rochkind invents the Source Code Control System
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Arno Penzias and Robert W. Wilson discover cosmic microwave background radiation in 1965 shared the Nobel Prize for
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Released in 1985, C++ began development by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs in 1979 as an extension to the original C language
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Chu receives the Nobel Prize for his research in cooling and trapping atoms using laser light
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Nobel Prize awarded to Horst. L Störmer, Robert B. Laughlin, and Daniel C. Tsui
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Willard Boyle and George E. Smith invent the CCD which is a semiconductor device in which the individual semiconductor components are connected so that the electrical charge at the output of one device provides the input to the next device.
