"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? "
Albert Einstein

Bell Labs was born more than a hundred years ago out of the need to improve the nascent telephone. It grew into a pure research facility that made an astounding number of scientific discoveries, improved or invented new technologies, and even influenced art and music.

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