![]() ![]() ![]() Their object was to invent the devices necessary to build a telephone system for the future that “Could connect any person to any other person, anytime.”Īfter America’s triumph in WWII, before television was introduced to the American public, it was by any measure a “long-Term” view. ![]() Basic Research includes testing a given material – silicon being one of them - for all of its obvious and potential characteristics and co-characteristics, in order to build whole new platforms upon which new technologies can be launched. You see, ten years before Steve Jobs was born, Bell Labs was running a research facility in New Jersey, which would employ tens of thousands of America’s best scientists, many of them concentrating on basic research. In fact, they could not have happened had there been no Bell Labs. ![]() Oh, I know you can quickly name a dozen other companies who made excellent products and monumental strides in technology, including HP, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Apple, Google, and on and on, but all of these companies would never have happened, were it not for Bell Labs. No single company is more responsible for our 21 st century technological era than the “Bell Labs” division of Ma Bell, THE Phone Company, originally known as American Telephone &Telegraph. ![]()
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