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Bell Lab's results are widely known. I'll just point to two: C and the Transistor, as being pretty hard to beat (there's much more). In any case, the parent c
by loumf 13y ago
Bell Lab's results are widely known. I'll just point to two: C and the Transistor, as being pretty hard to beat (there's much more).
In any case, the parent commenters point wasn't the difference in the two research lab's results, but the difference in philosophies between the labs and their respective parent companies.
- angersock 13y agoErm, lasers, Unix, communications satellites...
- mturmon 13y agoYour two are good. Another notable one is the original discovery of the cosmic microwave background, the primordial echo of the Big Bang, which is still being investigated today. That was a 1974 Nobel Prize. A nice list is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs#Discoveries_and_developments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs#Discoveries_and_devel... Basically, the GP comment is really quite wrong.