Bell Labs

The Bell Laboratories and Bell Labs (older names: BTL Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc.) are part of the research and development department of Alcatel -Lucent. The headquarters of Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey in the United States. The Bell Labs operate several research and development facilities worldwide.

The Bell Labs are administratively divided into three divisions: research, technology and development.

In research, you won fundamental insights for telecommunications in the fields of mathematics, physics, materials science and computer science.

The technology concerned with the highly complex systems from which the telecommunications networks were formed.

In the development, the largest division, the hardware and software was developed with which the telecommunication network of the Bell system was set up.

History

The Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. (later President of AT & T ) was founded as a separate entity for the research and development work of Western Electric in 1925 by Walter Gifford. Its first president was Frank B. Jewett. Shareholders were equal parts Western Electric and AT & T. The main task was to develop exchanges for Western Electric, which were sold to companies who used the Bell Telephone System. But even military projects such as the construction of the Nike missile were supported.

Milestones

1996 divided AT & T Bell Labs, along with most of the equipment manufacturing in the new company from Lucent Technologies. AT & T retained a smaller number researchers from which the AT & T Laboratories were formed.