Nokia Bell Labs

Nokia Bell Labs
Type	Subsidiary of Nokia
Founded	1880 (Bell Laboratory) 1925 (Bell Telephone Laboratories) 1984 (AT&T Bell Laboratories) 1996 (Bell Labs Innovations) 2016 (Nokia Bell Labs)
Headquarters	Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S.
Key people	Alexander Graham Bell, founder
Industry	electronics, computers, software
Products	electronics, computers, software
Number of people	not disclosed
Website	N/A

Nokia Bell Labs is an industrial research and scientific development company owned by Nokia.

Volta Laboratory and Bureau

In 1880, Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, and Charles Sumner Tainter founded Volta Laboratory after Alexander was awarded the Volta Prize of 50,000 francs by the French Government.

Aliases include Bell Laboratory, Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, Bell Carriage House and the Bell Laboratory.

Initially, as had also been the case the previous year, project work and research were conducted in a rented house in the capitol of the United States, Washington, D.C.

Alexander Graham Bell founded the Volta Bureau, a U.S. National Register of Historic Places site, to conduct research into the causes of deafness and how to improve the quality of life for the deaf.

Western Electric Engineering Department

In 1907, the staff in research and development at Western Electric and its corporate parent AT&T merged. The resulting development division was named the Western Electric Engineering Department.

Bell Telephone Laboratories

In 1925, Bell Telephone Laboratories was founded. Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1925 and placed under the shared ownership of Western Electric and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company

AT&T Bell Laboratories

Bell Telephone Laboratories was renamed AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1986.

Bell Labs Innovations

AT&T Bell Laboratories was renamed Bell Labs Innovations in 1996.

Nokia Bell Labs

Nokia acquired Bell Labs Innovations on April 15, 2015. The laboratory was renamed to Nokia Bell Labs.

Bell Labs innovations

Title	Developer	Released	Added to Museum	Notes
C	Dennis Ritchie	1972	February 27, 2020	Programming language.
C++	Bjarne Stroustrup	1985	Not yet	Programming language.
S	Rick Becker, Allan Wilks, John Chambers	1976	Not yet	Programming language.
Unix	Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, Joe Ossanna	1969	Not yet	Operating system.