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A history of engineering and science in the Bell System by prepared by A. E. Joel, Jr. and other members of the technical staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories; G. E. Schindler, Jr., editor is a book available to read on EtoBox.

Research was an essential element of Bell System operations even before the creation of Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1925. In founding a separate organization to investigate areas of science and engineering, the Bell System recognized the importance of an environment that fostered a spirit of creative enquiry among many disciplines. Another important ingredient for successful research is a clear sense of mission which, in the case of Bell Laboratories, us to provide the technology necessary to support the communications network. H. D. Arnold, the first Director of Research at Bell Laboratories, in 1925 expressed the company's philosophy in these words: "Research is the effort of the mind to comprehend relationships which no one has previously known, and in its finest exemplifications it is practical as well as theoretical, trending always toward worthwhile relationships, demanding common sense as well as uncommon ability." Out of this spirit of enquiry and this sense of mission have come an impressive array of inventions and discoveries, ranging from the physics of the innermost recesses of the atom to broad principles of mathematics and system design. Recorded here, for a signif

Author

prepared by A. E. Joel, Jr. and other members of the technical staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories; G. E. Schindler, Jr., editor

Publisher

A T & T Customer Information Center; AT & T Bell Laboratories

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780932764027

Subjects

Engineering, History, Technology