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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Basic timeline of Bell Labs

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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