Bell Labs History
Bell Labs History
Alexander Graham Bell founded Bell Labs in 1880 after winning a french monetary prize for inventing the telephone.
Became the R&D department of Bell's American Telephone and Telegraph company (AT&T).
Original Bell labs building as the R&D department of AT&T.
In 1934, bell labs moved to a larger facility in Murray Hill, NJ, where many of their monumental inventions came from and earned the name: The Idea Factory.
In 1984 AT&T was forced to diversify by the US GOV and Bell Labs was split off and became Bellcore.
In 1996, AT&T moved all manufacturing into Lucent Technologies while keeping all research in Bellcore.
After 2007, AT&T re-merged Bellcore and Lucent Technologies
In 2016 Nokia aquired all of the research and manufacturing that once encompassed to create Nokia Bell Labs. Lucent Technologies maintained the space
in Murray Hill, NJ, where most of the 20th century inventions happened.