Everything Was Invented Here

For the last century, one place has been responsible for more innovations and ingredients of the modern world than any other.

If Edison’s Menlo Park started turning invention into a science in the 19th century, Bell Labs worked on perfecting the art. Since 1925, AT&T’s crown jewel has given the world the transistor, the cellular phone, the laser, and the computer language UNIX.

They also proved the universe was expanding. No big deal, just normal Tuesday stuff.

Over the course of their existence, teams at Bell Labs have won 9 Nobel Prizes and 4 Turing Awards (like the Nobel Prize in computing).

Imagine the world without fast digital computers. Without the invention of the transistor, computer chips and the miniaturization that led to Moore’s Law wouldn’t have been possible. Your smartphone has billions of these little building blocks inside it.

Speaking of phones, AT&T also invented the cellular phone at Bell Labs. Without their work in radio transmission, signal processing, and networ…