

In addition to the existing research facilities of 400,000 square feet of space, its space was extended with a new building on about one quarter of a city block. The new company had existing personnel of 3600 engineers, scientists, and support staff. Ownership was evenly shared between Western Electric and AT&T. was organized to consolidate the development and research activities in the communication field and allied sciences for the Bell System.

On January 1, 1925, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. This included everything from telephones, telephone exchange switches, and transmission equipment. In 1896, Western Electric bought property at 463 West Street to station their manufacturers and engineers who had been supplying AT&T with their product. The original home of Bell Laboratories beginning in 1925, 463 West Street, New York. Īfter the invention of the telephone, Bell maintained a relatively distant role with the Bell System as a whole, but continued to pursue his own personal research interests.

This building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1972. In 1893, Bell constructed a new building close by at 1537 35th Street N.W., specifically to house the lab. Its carriage house became their headquarters in 1889. 1887) which was located at Bell's father's house at 1527 35th Street N.W. Bell used his considerable profits from the laboratory for further research and education to permit the " diffusion of knowledge relating to the deaf": resulting in the founding of the Volta Bureau (c. It focused on the analysis, recording, and transmission of sound. The laboratory was variously known as the Volta Bureau, the Bell Carriage House, the Bell Laboratory and the Volta Laboratory. in collaboration with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin Chichester Bell. In 1880, when the French government awarded Alexander Graham Bell the Volta Prize of 50,000 francs (approximately US$10,000 at that time about $290,000 in January 2019's dollars) for the invention of the telephone, he used the award to fund the Volta Laboratory ( Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory) in Washington, D.C. Origin and historical locations Bell's personal research after the telephone 3 Nobel Prizes, Turing Awards, Emmy Awards, Grammy Award, and Academy Award.

