Bell Laboratories has a history of developing products that have helped shape past and present technologies. Since its founding in 1925, the scientists at Bell Laboratories have been responsible for many groundbreaking technological achievements and have been awarded thousands of patents and several Nobel prizes for their efforts. Key "firsts" credited to Bell Labs include long-distance television transmission, fax transmission, touch-tone phone, communications satellite, and cellular telephone transmission. As the R & D arm of Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs's recent innovations include components of 3G mobile phone technology, telecommunications software, and nanotechnology for batteries, microphones, and lenses. To read the full description, subscribe now.
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