Category: The Bell System
Links, news, and history of The Bell System. The Bell System was the system of companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company, which provided telephone services to much of the United States and Canada from 1877 to 1984.
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Indiana Bell Building Move, 1930
Indiana Bell Building Move, 1930
— Read on www.paul-f.com/ibmove.html
“According to the story in the Daily Times, a helium-filled balloon was being used to map the route. The balloon was sent up 50 to 100 feet and held in place with a rope, while surveyors 15 miles away spotted it with high-powered binoculars.”
The Princess phone was pitched as the perfect extension for the bedroom
— Read on spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/space-age/in-1959-att-discovered-there-was-a-market-for-a-ladys-phone
Lucent technologies – Bell Labs Innovations
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Watson
Teddy Vail
George Campbell’s wave filter
Calling ship to shore
Frank Jewitt
Harold Black
Negative feedback
Television
Fax machines
More, more, more
Hi Fi, talkies
Movies, sound
Laying copper by the pound
Systems engineering
Quality control
Karl Demke
Herbert Ives
Davisson wins Nobel Prize
First speech synthesis
Beethoven in stereo
Bell Labs Innovations
Communications for the next generation
Bell Labs Innovations
Our contribution to the revolution
Ollie Buckley
Mobile phones
Radar
John Pierce
GI Loans
George David
Cellular
Voice technography
Claude Shannon
PCM
Richard Hamming
William Fan
Crackerjack transistor team
Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley
Transatlantic cable
A transistorized computer made
Non-blocking networks
Macro coding scheme
Oxide masking
Solar cells
Transistors win the Nobel
Art [Schawlow] and Charles [Townes] what a team
They invent the laser beam
Bell Labs Innovations
Communications for the next generation
Bell Labs Innovations
Our contribution to the revolution
Mervin Kelly
Touch-tone
Foil electret microphone
LEDs
Telstar I
Digital transmission
Long distance dialing
First ever paging
Superconductivity
Ion implantation
MBE
CCDs
Magnetic bubble memory
Penzias and Wilson
Hear the big bang noise
Automated switchboards
Ever moving forward
Jim Fisk
1E switch
That’s our attitude, do it, boys!
John Tukey
Carbon dating
Ken and Den built UNIX
Bill Baker
Quantum wells
NCDD
C language
Chromendure
Fiber optics will endure
Electron beam lithography
Anderson wins Nobel 3
Linc Hawkins
Amos Joel
Tom McChesney
Alfred Cho
Packet data
BellMAC
WDM
Transmitting mobile microwaves
Solitons without their phase
Transistors getting so small
You can’t even see them
Bell Labs Innovations
Communications for the next generation
Bell Labs Innovations
Our contribution to the revolution.
Echo canceller
DSDs
All on one chip if you please
Penzias and Wilson win the Nobel Prize
Bell Labs gets a new boss
By the name of Ian Ross
Lightwave goes long distance
Cellular gets digitized
S language
C++ – reuse code without a fuss
Femtosecond pulses
Deep UV lithography
Software windows on our screen
Gigabit transmission seen
Tunable lasers
Programming that’s sharp as razors
Bell Labs Innovations
Communications for the next generation
Bell Labs Innovations
Our contribution to the revolution
Megabits on a chip
First electro-optic switch
Atom-trapping micro cells
HDTV
Transatlantic lightwave cable
Bell Labs led by John Mayo
Neural networks
Buckeyballs
Superconductivity
RBM builds amplifier
Data nets without the wire
Operating Systems
Software methodology
Optical cross-connect
Jin Leong is President
Bell Labs spins out technologies
See the mighty SCALPEL
C2 waves Nobel
Transistor
Atom glide
X -ray Microprobe
Imaging buffer lobe
Circuits on plastic
Lasers that are bow tied
Internet telephony
Microphones the size of fleas
St’rmer, Loughlin, Tsui win a Nobel prize
Free space optic benefits
? router softswitch
Netravali needs the help
Lucent’s start is on the rise.
Bell Labs innovations
Make communication for the next generation
Bell Labs innovations
Our contribution to the revolution