Bells Labs Holmdel, NJ facility has been sold by Lucent Technologies & will be demolished soon. And no one cares. It should be protected on the National Register of Historic Sites or converted to a museum.
The scientists & engineers of Bell Labs brought seminal technological discoveries to the marketplace— technology we take for granted. Join to save Bell Labs now! Spread the word to protect it from the wrecking ball.
Where do I to begin to describe the tech pioneer Bell Labs? If Bell Labs were only remembered for building the world’s greatest communications system that would be enough. Without Bell Labs there might not have been a 800 phone network or 911, call-waiting or caller ID. But there was so much more.
Let’s start with the discovery of the revolutionary transistor in 1947, stereo recording, the first long distance TV transmission, the laser (1958), the first FAX machine, the touch tone telephone (1963), digital signal processor (1979), modems, first orbiting communications satelite (Telstar I, 1962), fiber optics, pioneered the first trials of DSL technology, the first commercial mobile telephone service and, what many will argue is the Holy Grail of modern technology, UNIX & C programming language (1969-72), which made the Internet practical.
Bell Labs scientists have won 11 Nobel prizes, 9 US National Medals of Science & 12 distinguished Computers & Communications awards from Japan, to cite but a few awards. Bell Labs inventions here.
The Internet community ought to act to save the Bell Labs facility & make it a historical site or a museum of technology. Pass the word through the innovations Bell Labs helped create. Do it now before this important home of technological history is turned into a parking lot or mall.
Update:
Ryan Block of Engadget joins the crusade to help bring awareness to possibly preserve this Tech Landmark or at least a piece of it, here and find our follow up here.
Update 2: Others that have picked up the story
Jupiter Research – Joseph Laszlo
