This morning on NPR, I heard a story about Bell Lab’s development of the Vocoder and its influence on music. As I listened to the story, I started to think about the importance of Bell Labs and how it paved the way for modern Telephony systems and computer programming. Over the past 90 years, Bell Labs developed a staggering amount of ground-breaking technologies, including radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, information theory, the UNIX operating system, and the C programming language, just to name a few. Seven Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories.
Here are links to more information about the discoveries made at Bell Labs and the history of the organization:
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs
Creation of Unix: http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/
Bell Labs History: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal/BellLabs/History
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