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Company was Incorporated
The company was incorporated as an AT&T subsidiary under the name Bell Telephone Laboratories -
First Synchronous Sound Motion Picture System
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Integration into Bell Labs
AT&T’s Development and Research Department, which was devoted to bridging the gap between operations of communication systems and laboratory research, was soon integrated into Bell Laboratories. As engineers from development departments were also folded into Bell Laboratories, the company grew. -
Pioneering of the Electrical Relay Digital Computer
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Nobel Prize in Physics for Work
Clinton Davisson for discovering that electrons diffract like lightwaves -
Nobel Prize in Physics for Work
John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, William B. Shockley for inventing the transistor -
First Electronic Telephone Switching System Designed
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Nobel Prize in Physics for Work
Philip W. Anderson for his study of disordered materials -
Nobel Prize in Physics for Work
Arno Penzias and Robert W. Wilson for discovering the cosmic microwave background radiation -
Effects of the Divestiture Agreement
In consequence of a divestiture agreement with the U.S. Government, AT&T Corporation divested the company of its local exchange companies and ceased Bell System. As part of the divestiture agreement, AT&T Technologies assumed the business of Western Electric and Bell Laboratories and thousands of Bell Laboratories employees were split off to form Bellcore. -
AT&T Split into Three Companies
In 1996–97 AT&T split into three companies; Lucent Technologies Inc., which was a manufacturer of telephone and other communications equipment. The majority of Bell Laboratories’ employees became part of Lucent, but a minority stayed with AT&T, which thenceforth confined itself to telephone and other services. -
Nobel Prize in Physics for Work
Steven Chu for his research in cooling and trapping atoms using laser light -
Nobel Prize in Physics for Work
Horst L. Störmer, Robert B. Laughlin, and Daniel C. Tsuifor discovering the fractional quantum Hall effect -
Nobel Prize in Physics for Work
Willard Boyle and George E. Smithfor inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD) -
Nokia acquired Alcatel-Lucent
Bell Labs and the former Nokia FutureWorks organization merged forces to create a greater Bell Labs, covering even more countries, and still retaining the same mission that has lasted throughout the 90+ years, to solve the great 10x industry challenges and produce disruptive innovations that improve the quality of life.