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Founded by inventor Alexander Graham Bell after splitting from Western Electric company.
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In 1931, researcher Karl Jansky found frequencies being emitted from the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Bell Laboratories developed the cryptographic voice transmitter that the Allies used in WWII called SIGSALY.
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John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Bradford Shockley were credited with inventing the transistor, a device that allowed amplification of electric signals.
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Bell Labratories is credited with inventing the first solar cell in the 1950s.
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Bell Laboratories in collaboration with AT&T and other telephone companies laid the first transatlantic cable between Scotland and Newfoundland
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Bell Laboratories researchers Arthur Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes are credited with writing the papers that described the laser.
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Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson are credited for creating the OS UNIX that can be traced to Mac OS and Linux OS.
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Dennis Ritchie developed the language C which is still used today in formats such as C++. At the time it was one of the most popular languages and made a lasting impact.
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The Bellmac 32A was developed being the first 32-bit microprocessor. What we still have similarly today with the 64-bit microprocessor.
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Arthur Ashkin is credited with inventing laser beam tweezers with the ability to pick up bacteria, viruses and even atoms.
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Bell Laboratories is credited with the universe map of dark matter which is said to be 85% of matter in the universe.
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Only four physics researchers remain at the laboratory.
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Bell Laboratories announced they broken the broadband internet speed record at 10 gigabytes per second.
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Nokia a large Finnish conglomerate purchased Bell Laboratories for $16.6 billion dollars more so refocusing their efforts towards telecommunications.
