Innovation stories

The stories behind innovations that changed the world and how we communicate

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Telstar 1

In 1962, Bell Labs launched the first active orbiting communications satellite

The rise of C++
Super-Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy
Confirming the Big Bang
Charge-coupled device
Neurophysics research
From maser to laser
Quantum cascade laser
Anechoic chamber
Bell Labs Technical Journal
The genesis of E.A.T.
50 years of Unix
Presidents of Bell Labs
How Claude Shannon and the Bell Labs Mathematics Department founded the digital age
Innovation timeline