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Historical Beginnings of Bell Labs
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 -
First synchronous-sound motion-picture system
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Pioneer electrical-relay digital computer / First Nobel prize awarded
The first of many Nobel Prizes for Bell Labs, achieved by Clinton Davisson, for demonstrating that electrons display both wave and particle characteristics -
Invention of the transistor
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 -
Second Nobel Prize in Physics achieved
Researchers John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William B. Shockley the Nobel Prize for Physics after inventing the transistor -
First electronic telephone-switching system and designed Telstar
Bell Labs developed the electronic telephone-switching system and designed Telstar which was the world's first satellite communications system -
Invention of the Carbon dioxide laser
The CO2 laser was one of the very first gas lasers to be developed by Kumar Patel -
A tactile force-feedback system is invented
A. Michael Noll invents a tactile force-feedback system along with an interactive stereoscopic computer display -
C programming language is compiled / Invention of the Source Code Control System
Dennis Ritchie develops the language C as a replacement for the interpreted language B. Marc Rochkind invents the Source Code Control System -
Third Nobel prize achieved
Arno Penzias and Robert W. Wilson discover cosmic microwave background radiation in 1965 shared the Nobel Prize for -
TDMA and CDMA digital cellular telephone technology patented
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C++ programming language sees its first commercial release
Released in 1985, C++ began development by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs in 1979 as an extension to the original C language -
Steven Chu receives Nobel Prize
Chu receives the Nobel Prize for his research in cooling and trapping atoms using laser light -
Discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect
Nobel Prize awarded to Horst. L Störmer, Robert B. Laughlin, and Daniel C. Tsui -
Charged-Coupled Device (CCD) invented
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.
