Nokia Bell Labs

Nokia Bell Labs
Type	Subsidiary of Nokia
Founded	1880 (Bell Laboratory) 1907 (Western Electric Engineering Dept.) 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	https://www.bell-labs.com/

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

Volta Laboratory

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.

Alternate names 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 formed the Volta Bureau to conduct research into the causes of deafness and how to improve the quality of life for the deaf.

Western Electric Engineering Department

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

Bell Telephone Laboratories

In 1925, Bell Telephone Laboratories was founded. It was placed under the shared management of Western Electric and its parent company AT&T.

AT&T Bell Laboratories

Bell Telephone Laboratories was renamed AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1984.

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	Notes
AWK	Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, Brian Kernighan	1977	Programming language.
B	Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie	1969	Programming language.
C	Dennis Ritchie	1972	Programming language, evolved from B.
C++	Bjarne Stroustrup	1985	Programming language, evolved from C.
S	Rick Becker, Allan Wilks, John Chambers	1976	Programming language.
Unix	Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, Joe Ossanna	1969	Operating system.