00:00 Bell Labs is the greatest research laboratory in history, where numerous inventions and developments, such as lasers, photovoltaic cells, and the UNIX operating system, were made.

01:54 Bell Labs, founded by Alexander Graham Bell, was the single greatest innovation engine of the 20th century, working on audio-related technology and eventually spinning off the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

03:17 Bell Telephone, later known as AT&T, became a monopoly in the telephone industry in the US, owning both the telephone lines and the telephones themselves, with all research and development consolidated into Bell Telephone Laboratories.

04:28 Bell Labs, once a part of AT&T and now known as Nokia Bell Labs, conducted groundbreaking research and development that earned them nine Nobel Prizes.

05:53 Bell Labs earned five Turing Prizes, created motion pitchers, statistical process control, uncrackable encryption, long-distance television transmission, discovered radio waves from the center of the galaxy, invented stereo audio recording, stereo radio transmissions, the first speech synthesizer, the first photovoltaic cell, and developed the transistor.

07:04 Bell Labs developed the first transatlantic telephone cable, the theoretical foundations for the creation of the laser, the first gas laser, the first telecommunication satellite, discovered cosmic microwave background radiation, created the first version of the UNIX operating system, the first charged couple device, the C programming language, the first 32-bit microprocessor, the first computerized telephone switching system, the first system to deliver voice over fiber optic cables, CDMA and TDMA, C++, the first transatlantic fiber optic telephone cable, the first 56K modem, and a new type of electron lithography for printing computer chips.

08:18 Bell Labs has been awarded over 17,000 patents and played a crucial role in the development of various technologies, including fiber optics, lasers, electronics, and wireless technology, which have greatly impacted our modern world.