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Alexander Graham Bell, who received the Volta prize for inventing the telephone, funded the creation of the Volta Laboratory with his prize money, which later became the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
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AT&T acquired the Bell system and the American Bell Telephone Company..
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Under the a partnership between AT&T and Western Electric, Bell Labs was created to increase researches of the Bell System..
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A prototype synchronous-sound motion picture system was invented by the laboratories.
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A Bell Labs team, with Herbert Eugene Ives successfully transmitted 128-line television long-distance images of Herbert Hoover from Washington to New York.
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While working at Bell Labs, Karl Jansky discovers radio waves being transmitted form the center od the galaxy and the foundation for radio astronomy was set.
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Leopold Stokowski conducted experiment resulting in accurate and long playing stereophonic recording.
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William Shockley created the transistor, one of the most important inventions in the 20th century., with the help of Walter Brattain and John Bardeen. -
Arthur Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes described the first laser in their technical paper, which Theodore Harold Maiman used as a basis to create the first laser in 1960.
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The Telstar 1, a communication satellite manufactured by Bell Labs, was launched by NASA and broadcasted television images from the United States to Europe. -
Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson coded UNIX, which is a computer operating system intended for supporting telecommunication switching systems and for general purpose computing.
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Dennis Ritchie developed the complied programming language C at Bell Labs.
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The first Optical fiber system test was conducted by Bell Labs in Georgia. -
Bjarne Stroustrup developed the general-purpose programming language C++ as an extension of the complied programming language C.
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AT&T decided to spin off Bell Labs and most of its manufacturing equipment and Lucent Technologies was created.
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Lucent Technologies signed a merger agreement with Alcatel and the parent company of Bell Laboratories was renamed Alcatel-Lucent.
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Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent announced that its new technology, XG-FAST, achieved the highest broadband Internet transmission speeds of 10 Gbps.
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Nokia acquires Alcatel-Lucent after a share exchange estimated to be $16.6 billion and renames it Nokia Bell Labs.