* Bell Labs Innovations* Lyrics by Michael Jacobs and Patrick Regan Reconstructed from the audio by Peter Capek Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Watson Teddy Vail George Campbell’s wave filter Calling ship to shore Frank Jewitt Harold Black Negative feedback Television Fax machines More, more, more Hi Fi, talkies Movies, sound Laying copper by the pound Systems engineering Quality control Karl Demke Herbert Ives Davisson wins Nobel Prize First speech synthesis Beethoven in stereo Bell Labs Innovations Communications for the next generation Bell Labs Innovations Our contribution… to the revolution Ollie Buckley Mobile phones Radar John Pierce GI Loans George David Cellular Voice technography Claude Shannon PCM Richard Hamming William Fan Crackerjack transistor team.. Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley Transatlantic cable A transistorized computer made Non-blocking networks Macro coding scheme Oxide masking Solar cells Transistors win the Nobel Art [Schawlow] and Charles [Townes] what a team They invent the laser beam Bell Labs Innovations Communications for the next generation Bell Labs Innovations Our contribution… to the revolution Mervin Kelly Touch-tone Foil electret microphone LEDs Telstar I Digital transmission Long distance dialing First ever paging Superconductivity Ion implantation MBE CCDs Magnetic bubble memory Penzias and Wilson Hear the big bang noise Automated switchboards Ever moving forward Jim Fisk 1E switch That’s our attitude – do it, boys! John Tukey Carbon dating Ken and Den built UNIX Bill Baker Quantum wells NCDD C language Chromendure Fiber optics will endure Electron beam lithography Anderson wins Nobel 3 Linc Hawkins Amos Joel Tom McChesney Alfred Cho Packet data BellMAC WDM Transmitting mobile microwaves Solitons without their phase Transistors getting so small You can’t even see ‘em Bell Labs Innovations Communications for the next generation Bell Labs Innovations Our contribution… to the revolution. Echo canceller DSDs All on one chip if you please Penzias and Wilson win the Nobel Prize Bell Labs gets a new boss By the name of Ian Ross Lightwave goes long distance Cellular gets digitized S language C++ - reuse code without a fuss Femtosecond pulses Deep UV lithography Software windows on our screen Gigabit transmission seen Tunable lasers Programming that’s sharp as razors Bell Labs Innovations Communications for the next generation Bell Labs Innovations Our contribution… to the revolution Megabits on a chip First electro-optic switch Atom-trapping micro cells HDTV Transatlantic lightwave cable Bell Labs led by John Mayo Neural networks Buckeyballs Superconductivity RBM builds amplifier Data nets without the wire Operating Systems Software methodology Optical cross-connect Jin Leong is President Bell Labs spins out … technologies See the mighty SCALPEL C2 waves Nobel Transistor atom glide X -ray Microprobe Imaging buffer lobe Circuits on plastic Lasers that are bow tied Internet telephony Microphones the size of fleas Stőrmer, Loughlin, Tsui win a Nobel prize Free space optic benefits ? router softswitch Netravali needs the help Lucent’s start is on the rise. Bell Labs innovations Make communication for the next generation Bell Labs innovations Losin’ contribution … to the revolution