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The AT & T Corporate Collection includes material dating from Alexander Graham Bell's original inventions and the birth of the telephone industry to the present. This collection is particulary strong in material on the evolution of AT & T's business structure and policies, products, and services. The Western Electric Museum Collection and Hawthorne files includes records of Gray and Barton, the corporate predecessor of Western Electric, and thousands of photographs and documents illustrating the development of Western Electric products, plants, and people. The Bell Laboratories R&D collection documents the remarkable range of scientific and technological discoveries made at Bell labs since 1925 and includes laboratory notebooks, technical memoranda, photographs, and artifacts. Among the technical innovations documented are the transistor (John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, William Shockley), the laser, sound motion pictures, high fidelity sound recordings, early digital computers, the UNIX operating system, polymers and material science, and all aspects of telephone switching and transmission technology. Individuals represented in the collections include AT & T executives such as Theodore Vail (whose vision of "one system, one policy, universal service" led to the evolution of AT & T's international telephone network), J. J. Carty (the chief engineer who turned to physicists Frank B. Jewett and Harold D. Arnold to solve the challenge of transcontinental telephone transmission using the new technology of the vacuum tube), and W. S. Gifford (AT & T president from 1925 to 1948); Bell Laboratories Executives including Frank B. Jewett (who became the first president of Bell Laboratories at its founding in 1925), H. H. Arnold, Edward Beech Craft, Oliver E. Buckley, Mervin Kelly, William Oliver Baker, John Mayo, and Ian Ross; and papers of diverse AT & T scientists and inventors, including Sidney Cyril Abrahams, Philip W. Anderson, Solomon Jan Buchsbaum, Joseph Ashby Burton, Joseph John Carty, Dawon Kahng, Rudolf Kompfner (well known for his 1943 invention of the travelling wave tube), James Brown Fisk, Calvin Souther Fuller, Lester Halbert Germer, Alan Holden, Warren Perry Mason, George Edward Moore, John Robinson Pierce (a pioneer in satellite communications), Joseph Peter Remeika, George Clark Southworth, Theodore Newton Vail, and Bell's collaborator Thomas A. Watson.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Bell Telephone Laboratories, inc.

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Germer, Lester Halbert

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Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922

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Inventor and educator. From the description of Check, 1918 Feb. 11. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70954428 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor and educator, and members of the related Bell, Fairchild, Grosvenor, and Hubbard families. From the description of Alexander Graham Bell family papers, 1834-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979893 Inventor Alexander Graham Bell became a member of the American Philsophical Society in...

AT & T Archives

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The AT & T Archives, is the repository for the historical records of all present and former operations of the company. It includes major holdings on the AT & T Corporation, The Western Electric Company (AT & T's manufacturing subsidiary until 1984), and Bell Laboratories (AT & T's research and development division until 1996). AT & T funded its archives in 1921. It has been located in Warren, NJ since 1987. From the description of Archives. (Unknown). WorldCat rec...

Shockley, William, 1910-1989

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Died 1989. From the description of Oral history interview with William Shockley, 1974 September 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78821004 American physicist. From the description of William Shockley miscellaneous papers, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871662 Professor of engineering at Stanford (1958-1975; emeritus 1975- ). Shockley was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, 1956. From the description of William Shockley paper...

Burton, Joseph Ashby, 1914-1986.

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Physicist (solid state physics). From the description of Notebooks. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79752318 ...

Jewett, Frank B. (Frank Baldwin), 1879-1949

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Anderson, P. W. 1923-

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Pierce, John R. (John Robinson), 1910-2002

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Electrical engineer, musical acoustics. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84491512 From the description of Papers, 1936-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83715362 John R. Pierce earned all three of his degrees at the California Institute of Technology: B.S. in 1933, M.S. in 1934, and Ph.D. in 1936. He worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1936 to 1971, where his work included electronic tubes, microwave communications, and psycho...

Fuller, Calvin Souther, 1902-1994.

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Bardeen, John

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of John Bardeen : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122586692 John Bardeen (1908-1991). Physicist (solid state). Research physicist, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1945-1951; Professor of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, from 1951. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1956 and 1972. From the description of Superconductivity and other macroscopic quantum systems [videore...

Baker, William O. (William Oliver), 1915-2005

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William O. Baker was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 15, 1915. He attended Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland and Princeton University. Upon receiving his doctoral degree from Princeton, he joined Bell Labs in May 1939. Dr. Baker remained at Bell Labs for the remainder of his career, rising to vice president of the research division (in 1955) and ultimately became head of the labs from 1973 to 1979. Dr. Baker retired from Bell Laboratories in 1980. He died in Chatham, New Jersey on O...

Western electric company

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The Western Electric Company was a subsidiary of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. The firm manufactured a wide variety of telephone equipment at its Hawthorne Works in Chicago, Illinois. A notable series of worker efficiency experiments known as the Hawthorne Studies were staged at the plant between 1924 and 1933. From the description of Photograph album, 1925. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 52815587 From the description of Western Electric Com...

Fisk, James Brown.

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Abrahams, S. C. 1924-

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AT & T Bell Laboratories

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Excerpts of a series of interviews with prominent figures in the development of the UNIX operating system. From the description of Release.0, / the beginning, 1989. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283834 ...

Brattain, Walter H. (Walter Houser), 1902-1987

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Major affiliations include: Bell Laboratories, NJ, USA, 1929-1967; Columbia University, New York, NY USA, 1942-1943; and Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA, 1967- From the description of Personal Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84185841 Physicist. Major affiliations include: Bell Laboratories, NJ, USA (1929-1967); Columbia University, New York, NY, USA (1942-1943); and Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA, (1967-1987?). From the description of Thesis, ...