Alcatel-Lucent has scanned and put the entire Bell Systems Technical Journal online. There is a lot about research and inventions to try to manage the "outside

Alcatel-Lucent has scanned and put the entire Bell Systems Technical Journal online. There is a lot about research and inventions to try to manage the "outside plant" and how better and better cables were invented. You can fit all of it on a 16GB SD card for your eBook reader, and you will never be bored again, at least not if you skip some of the calculus :-)