The solar industry has come of age, developing into a technology that is rapidly replacing coal, oil, and natural gas ...

On this day in 1954, Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated the first practical solar panel. The emphasis here is on practical. The photovoltaic (or photoelectric) effect, where a material ...

Thank you, Bell Labs, for that . . . and for fax machines, solar cells, digital cameras, and don't forget Telstar, the first satellite to transmit television pictures.

How Bell Labs Invented the World We Live in Today 1 minute read July 1962— A Bell Labs technician prepares to wire together the components of an experimental communications satellite.

If you want to read about a low-tech approach to solar cells invented — and forgotten — 40 years before Bell Labs announced the first practical silicon solar cell, we can’t promise the ...

Exactly 70 years ago today, scientists at Bell Labs in the US state of New Jersey presented the first practical “solar battery” to the public. The New York Times reported at the time that ...

Bell built the first transistorized computer and, of course, has greatly improved phone service. The labs boast over 26,000 patents and eleven Nobel Prize winners.

Bell Laboratories’ scientists Gerald Pearson, Calvin Fuller and Daryl Chapin designed the first practical photovoltaic cell in the mid-’50s in Murray Hill.

Why was Bell Labs so important to innovation and creativity in the 20th century? This question was originally answered on Quora by Rob Goodman.

In 1947, the same year that the transistor was invented and 40 years before there were a million American cell-phone subscribers, an engineer at Bell Labs sketched out the rough design for a ...

For months before that first call, Motorola was racing to build a cell phone against Bell Labs, the legendary research arm of AT&T that had developed the transistor and other innovations.