And I can see your love for it also in your book. And they, you know, helped me do little science experiments with parts and things. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.įLATOW: Bell Labs has been one of my great interests, ever since I was a little kid. Jon Gertner writes all about the magical days of the Hell's Bells Laboratory in his new book "The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation." He's also an editor at Fast Company here in New York. They - two of them, Penzias and Wilson, would go on to win the Nobel Prize for that. A couple of scientists even discovered the first echoes of the big bang by accident. Researchers at Bell Labs were inventing the future in all kinds of ways doing pioneering work on solar cells, lasers and communication satellites. But the transistor - maybe the most important innovation of the 20th century - was invented there too. You may remember it as the place where Ma Bell developed part of its indestructible telephones. It's the Hell's bells and buckets of blood at the Hell's Bells Laboratory.įLATOW: The Hell's Bells Laboratory, the storied Bell Labs nestled into the rolling hills of New Jersey. UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing) We've traveled a long way to bring you this song, a brand new calypso we're sure to get wrong, about the reform school to which we belong. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "HELL'S BELLS LABORATORY") What sort of company would have a song written about it, let alone have its employees sing it?
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