What do lasers, photovoltaic cells, the transistor, digital cameras, cell phone technology, the communication satellite, computer networking, radio astronomy, and the. operating system all have in common.

They were all invented or developed at the same place by the greatest collection of scientists and engineers ever assembled.

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Once again, that is rerouted. CO. Bell Labs pretty much invented

everything. Okay maybe that isn't quite true, but it's also not far from the truth.

Bell Labs was the single greatest innovation engine of the 20th century.

The only thing I can really think of that would even be close to it

would have been Thomas Edison's lab in the late 19th and early 20th century. Bell Labs was founded by

and named after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.

In 1880 he received an award called the Volta Prize from the French government for the

invention of the telephone.

The award is 50,000 French francs, which was worth about $10,000. the

award is 50,000 French francs which was worth about $10,000 at the time.

With the money he established the Volta Laboratory in Washington, D.C.

The purpose of the lab was to work mostly on audio-related technology such as telephone

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