As the iconic Bell Labs marks 100 years in 2025 as a research arm of former communications giants AT&T and Bell Telephone System, it has a historic, corporate tie-in to the Lehigh Valley ...

Bell Labs began in 1925 as the Bell Telephone Laboratories, a science and communication research arm of the Bell system with ownership evenly split between AT&T and Western Electric. At its prime ...

It’s been said that the best way to stifle creativity by researchers is to demand that they produce immediately marketable technologies and products. This is also effectively the story of Bell ...

It’s been said that the best way to stifle creativity by researchers is to demand that they produce immediately marketable technologies and products. This is also effectively the story of Bell ...

Neither AT&T’s corporate historian nor long-retired employees of Bell Labs knew about it, and after many calls failed to turn up information, I began to feel like I was chasing a ghost.

AT&T built its Bell Labs facility in 1941 in what was rural property in Murray Hill. Nokia which now owns Bell Labs, was looking for a new space that is more "collaborative." It found its spot in ...

In the early 1970s the leadership of AT&T's research and development organization, then known as "Bell Laboratories," initiated efforts to recruit minority students for technical positions within the ...

Bell Labs began in 1925 with researchers from the two companies that operated it, American Telephone & Telegraph and Western Electric, which made the telecommunications equipment AT&T used in the ...

Where better to house a museum devoted to the internet than New Jersey, home of not only of Bell Labs but also at one time the headquarters of the communications empire, AT&T, our Ma Bell?