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'''Bell Laboratories''' is a famous industrial laboratory headquartered in Murray Hill, [[New Jersey]]. It was founded in 1925 to serve AT&T's Bell System, the regulated monopoly that for most of a century was "the" telephone company to most Americans. During the years of the AT&T monopoly, Bell Laboratories, although privately financed, did a great deal of basic research and was one of the most famous [[scientific]] research establishment in the [[world]].
'''Bell Laboratories''' is a famous industrial laboratory headquartered in Murray Hill, [[New Jersey]]. It was founded in 1925 to serve AT&T's Bell System, the regulated monopoly that for most of a century was "the" telephone company to most Americans. During the years of the AT&T monopoly, Bell Laboratories, although privately financed, did a great deal of basic research and was one of the most famous [[scientific]] research establishment in the [[world]].
Bell researchers won [[Nobel prize]]s for demonstrating the wave nature of matter, inventing the transistor (which is the basis of all modern [[electronics]]), and making observations in radio astronomy that detected the radiation background from the origin of the universe (the [[Big Bang]]). It also made advances in computer science; in particular, it developed the UNIX operating system (the basis of modern-day LINUX).
Bell researchers won [[Nobel Prize]]s for demonstrating the wave nature of matter, inventing the transistor (which is the basis of all modern [[electronics]]), and making observations in radio astronomy that detected the radiation background from the origin of the universe (the [[Big Bang]]). It also made advances in computer science; in particular, it developed the UNIX operating system (the basis of modern-day LINUX).
Bell Laboratories continues to exist, as the research and development arm of Alcatel-Lucent, but with the breakup of the Bell companies, it is now more closely focussed on projects that can be seen as having a short-term business payoff.
Bell Laboratories continues to exist, as the research and development arm of Alcatel-Lucent, but with the breakup of the Bell companies, it is now more closely focussed on projects that can be seen as having a short-term business payoff.