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Alexander Graham Bell founds Volta Laboratory, the original Bell Labs.
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Hearing Aids were first being developed by the scientists and innovators at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.
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Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. that is now called Bell Labs was first created. During this time 4,000 scientists and engineers started working there.
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Herbert Ives who was the head of a team at Bell Labs was able to send television images from Washington to New York.
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AT&T Research Department connected laboratory research and communications into Bell Laboratories
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One of the most important inventions developed by Bell was founded called the Transistor, which was invented by John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain.
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The first ever solar cell was invented at Bell Labs
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UNIX, the computer operating system was created by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson.
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Language C was developed to replace language B in the UNIX which was invented by Dennis Ritchie.
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A huge change happened for Bell Labs when AT&T Corp. removed itself due to a sell off with the U.S. Government, therefore leaving Bell System alone.
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AT&T split into three different companies and Lucent Technologies was created which manufactured telephones
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Lucent Technologies which was a parent company of Bell Laboratories merged with Alcatel-Lucent.
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Bell Labs broke the record of fastest broadband internet speed.
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Nokia aquired Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6 billion.
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In the 1980's Arthur Ashkin worked on the optical tweezer, but it wasn't until 2018 that he won a nobel prize for his success on them.
