This post is a basic timeline of Bell Labs. There are 40 events listed below chronologically.
- Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone (1877)
- Alexander Graham Bell founds Bell Telephone Company (1877)
- Bell Labs is established (1925)
- Control chart method of statistical control proposed (1924)
- Synchronous-sound motion picture (1926)
- Long-distance television images (1927)
- Radio astronomy long-distance shortwave communication research (1931)
- Vocoder electronic speech compression (1937)
- Complex number calculator (1939)
- Relay computer (1943)
- Ballistic computer (1944)
- General purpose electromechanical computer (1947)
- Transistor (1947)
- Zone melting semiconductor method (1952)
- Karnaugh map for Boolean algebra (1953)
- Solar cell (1954)
- TAT-1 transatlantic communications cable (1956)
- MUSIC electronic music program (1957)
- BEFLIX animation language (1960's)
- Electret microphone (1962)
- Telstar 1 communications satellite (1962)
- Carbon dioxide laser (1964)
- Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (1966)
- UNIX computer operating system (1969)
- Charge-coupled device (1969)
- Transistor-transistor logic (1970's)
- C programming language (1972)
- Source Code Control System (1972)
- Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system (1980's)
- Time-division multiple access (TCMA) (1980)
- Code-division multiple access (CDMA) (1980)
- C++ programming language (1985)
- Photoconductive antennas (1984)
- TAT-8 transatlantic fiber-optic cable (1988)
- Quantum cascade laser (1994)
- SCALPEL electron lithography (1996)
- Bell Laboratories is spun off as Lucent Technologies (1996)
- Optimal router (1998)
- Alcatel acquires Lucent Technologies (2006)
- Nokia acquires Alcatel-Lucent (2016)
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