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Bell Labs
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research and scientific development company
Bell Labs was a research and scientific development company that conducted innovative work in technology and science. It matters because the breakthroughs and inventions developed there had significant impacts on modern technology and communications.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- publishing house
- Part of
- Alcatel-Lucent
- Named after
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Headquarters
- New Jersey
- Owned by
- Nokia
- Parent organization
- Nokia
- Chairperson
- Mervin Joe Kelly
- Industry
- research
- Legal form
- private limited company
- Official website
- www.bell-labs.com
- Image
- Bell Laboratories at New Providence, New Jersey (7235324892) (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Bell Labs
- topic's main category
- Category:Bell Labs
- inception
- 1925-00-00
- IPv4 routing prefix
- 12.0.0.0/8
- native label
- Bell Labs
- social media followers
- 14400
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- street address
- Mountain Avenue 600
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Encyclopedic overview
Nokia Bell Labs, commonly referred to as Bell Labs, is an American industrial research and development company owned by the Finnish technology company Nokia. With headquarters located in Murray Hill, New Jersey, the company operates several laboratories in the United States and around the world.
As a former subsidiary of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), Bell Labs and its researchers have been credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others, throughout the 20th century. Eleven Nobel Prizes and five Turing Awards have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories.
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