The Research Lab The US Government Shutdown in 1984

[@s3_build]

Did you watch to the end and see our special guest we had on to talk about Claude Shannon and Information Theory for a few minutes? ... Pretty crazy!

[@samyogdhital]

Yeah and loved it.

[@w4gap]

Yes, few have taken the time to really think about the creation of Information Theory by Claude Shannon and how groundbreaking it was at the time. Understanding it today is no trivial task.

[@TwisterTornado]

Why do people use this kind of background music? It's like you WANT me to ignore you and think you sound like a boring guy at a nightclub, or bar.

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

Except AI doesn't exist program s all computer programs have been it's just okay the more modern the way still needs to buy you AI cannot actually exist at this time simply because if we are to leave what the promoters have said bullshit say which is simply that AI is modeled off of the human brain well then it can't exist because we don't actually know that much about the human brain so how can you build something that is to imitate and or replicate what you don't know about? Sorry Charlie it's a couple of shitty chatbots which is basically just a program with humans holding its hand and then the rest is a stock$ scam!

[@kbbl102.5]

I've got to find a video by someone else on this, your narrator is horribly insufferable- voice, facial expressions, mannerisms, just really obnoxious. Take care

[@0xTristan]

Radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages C and C++. All invented at Bell Labs. They absolutely changed the way we live today.

[@deepspacecow2644]

Its still around, although smaller. They are nokia bell labs now, working on 6G.

[@WarlordEnthusiast]

You forgot one, the computer mouse.

[@andrewmorgan693]

And the vacuum tube and the LED… and more. It’s actually insane.

[@dfinlen]

They defined our world today.

[@lordnate1016]

Bro really copy and pasted the wikipedia

[@newtechgs7471]

Imagine getting a load of smart people together, removing profit and marketing, and paying them to just invent things that may or may not be useful. Wild

[@maxstrong1999]

The profit was in the discovery of their inventions. A Unix licence in the 80s was over $100,000 in 80s money.

[@newtechgs7471]

@maxstrong1999 yes of course, but how many companies would just take on staff these days to just create, with a possibility that none of their work will even be useable. It was a very unique situation

[@maxstrong1999]

@@newtechgs7471 facebook and google have huge lab operations. A lot of that type of research has been taken up by universities and what not.

[@xPablo1376]

Wont anyone think of the poor stockholders 😢

[@37Kilo2]

The federal government funds the VA Research Department. Lots of money flows in, and as a result, the government owns a ton of patents that bring in big money. Unfortunately, there's a lot of animal experimentation that goes on in the VA, which I don't agree with.

[@HarryMendell]

I worked at Bell Labs in Holmdel from 1976-1984. It was truly amazing. One of my favorite memories was when Wilson and Penzias received to Nobel for discovering the Big Bang background radiation signal. They had a ceremony in the auditorium and everyone was invited. They had other Nobel winners, also working there, congratulate them. Then they teased them by showing “our winners” mopping the pigeon (actually geese) shit off the satellite dish. Then they said “You guys mistook the creation of the universe for bird shit and got the Nobel prize” Imagine how special a place has to be for that scene to naturally happen. I hope one day that a place like Bell Labs will exist again. I cannot express how lucky and grateful I felt just to be in that auditorium.

[@tesofe]

“Mistook pigeon shit by the creation of the universe“ … Hilarious!!!

[@qwertykeyboard-c5o]

even you have achieved a lot from bell labs to morgan stanley to new york fed , how did you achieve this much knowledge , can we know , for me thats a big deal too

[@aylerayler]

Thank you for sharing ❤

[@eFxAstro]

Harry, with a Wikipedia page dedicated to your contributions as an inventor, I think saying "I worked at Bell Labs in Holmdel from 76-84" is a major downplay😃. I live 20 minutes from Bell Labs (now Bell Works) and I feel the sense of innovation when using their free study spaces - even if it's become a tacky commercial-retail space haha. I dropped out of college and had no direction. I found a passion in computer science, AI, and cyber security. After almost exclusively self studying and researching at Bell Works for a few years, I landed a role at the Air Force Research Laboratory in a really cool backroom role. Without even working at Bell Labs, that property holds significant emotional and intellectual value to me. Although Bell Labs is long gone, the spirit of innovation is definitely felt within the walls of Bell Works. Thanks for your contributions to Stem, Finance, and Music Harry. Would love the opportunity to ask a few questions. I connected with you on LinkedIn.

[@dvduwu]

The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex truly is a work of art. I've explored it all the time even before it was renovated and converted into a business park in 2019. I lived at Seven Oaks Circle, so it was literally across the street from the Transistor Water Tower. One of the leading reasons I got into architecture. Having Eero Saarinen's last work right at your fingertips, left completely abandoned for almost 12 years, it was both a shame and a great exploratory opportunity.

[@brendanbullock2892]

One of my favorite anecdotes from Bell Labs was about Harry Nyquist, another prolific figure in the development of communications theory. During Bell Labs' success, patent lawyers were interested in finding what specifically caused engineers and physicists to be productive in producing patents. After some analysis, they found: "Workers with the most patents often shared lunch or breakfast with a Bell Labs electrical engineer named Harry Nyquist. It wasn't the case that Nyquist gave them specific ideas. Rather, as one scientist recalled, 'he drew people out, got them thinking'" (p. 135). This passage is from the same book referenced in the video. This small detail about such a large company never fails to make me smile because it underlines the importance of listening and inspiring others around you. For that reason, I appreciate this channel and other science communicators that showcase innovation and creative ideas.

[@c2vi_dev]

hey.... the second guy from the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem.... I heard about so many times at school AWESOME anecdote.... should have been included in the video imo

[@AM-tu1rc]

Remember to sample at twice the bandwidth kids!

[@claeslillieskold2398]

That's a funny story. He was from Värmland a region in Sweden where I would say people have a soft way of speaking with a very peculiar humour. Generalising a bit of course, but I can imagine conversations with Harry spurring ideas.

[@micaelaiphys]

My dad worked at Bell Labs (later Lucent and then Agere), it was always really cool seeing what he was working on. All the wafers and semiconductor blueprints. He helped to develop the technologies that became AT&Ts gen.1 video phone, later offered to Apple in their exclusive AT&T partnership. This was the foundation which fostered FaceTime. Thanks for sharing this insight, I definitely can’t wait to read the book!!

[@CyrusChennault]

Your fathers work will never be forgotten. He helped shape our world. I want to extend my deepest appreciation. Thank him for his service please.

[@Cloudsurfer69]

Well, i for one, tip my hat to him. A true architect of the future! I'm sure you are very proud of your pops & rightfully so!!

[@Thor-Orion]

Yeah. My grandpa worked for Bell Labs then Lucent as well. I live about 30 minutes from the Holmdel Complex. It’s a pretty interesting building still, I was there fairly recently, I’m not entirely sure who rents the spaces in the building now because the place is massive.

[@knrz2562]

Apple?😮

[@accumulator5734]

I met Bjarne Stroustrup. I’m a lineman for the cable company. I had to go inside a house to check the modem. When I saw the guy at his desk I thought I recognized him. Then I saw several books I knew he had written behind him and I was like, holy cow are you the guy that invented C++?!? He was pretty humble and said yes. He was actually shocked that I knew who he was. He was excited to answer all my questions. But I guess it caught him off guard that lineman from the cable company was a big enough nerd to even know who he was 😂.

[@MindFusion-ij1xl]

I get many greats that advanced humanity want to be remembered, but that is not the long term way of things. Instead, like DNA and offspring, their legacy is their legend, people won't remember the names, but the studied for centuries will notice the change in DNA (if you will) of the advancement of mankind.

[@lethallama15]

Boys will see this on a Saturday morning and say “Hell yeah”

[@jasoncarman_]

helllll yeah. this + some overly caloric breakfast and infinite black coffee WILL FIX YOU.

[@lethallama15]

@@jasoncarman_ Or 1 english muffin, some egg whites and black coffee if you're on a cut 😥

[@s3_build]

True, Jason's about to be put on a diet

[@Pr0toPoTaT0]

I saw it on a Sunday because I have never seen a video from him before. But I'm here now. Let's see what's up

[@WillThat]

I miss Discovery Wings and Discovery Science.

[@reneschmidt9367]

OK, this was a fun thing to stumble across! I’m almost 67 years old, and as an early teenager I was fortunate enough to have a Bell Labs experimental scientist as a neighbor, the parent of one of my playmate friends there on our street. He would bring us home all of these goodies: parts, pieces, wonderful electronic education kits etc and the one that stuck out was a speech synthesis kit. In it, you could wire up various circuits that would create individual components of a word, a formant, and that bug has stuck with me to this day. Fun fact: my stepdad still lives across the street from that house, and my mom, his previously divorced wife, now lives in that Bell Labs engineer’s house across the street!

[@beardedopinions336]

Hol up-your mom and stepdad divorced and she just moved across the street?this a really small town or?

[@reneschmidt9367]

@ lol it’s a sweet yet awful story. At the ends of their lives, they are more in love now than they ever were. And this story spans 50 years, thousands of miles, and more intrigue, secrets, betrayal, and pain than you can imagine. The across-street house was bought for half-bro and his gf cuz dad needed care, but bro had another secret gf and that blew up spectacularly. That’s just the beginning of the story and it only gets worse from there. At least the old ones are happy, oblivious to the trail of damage they’ve left in their wake. But it looks cute hah!

[@MultiPetercool]

My Dad started at Bell Labs in 1962. He built the radiation detector for Telstar I and II. He later worked with Horst Stormer, Walter Brown, Homer Hagstrum, Don Eigler and many others. Walter Brown was particularly important to me. He sponsored a local Boy Scout Explorer Post that met at Murray Hill every Monday night. This allowed me and many other local high school students to play and learn with lasers, UNIX, crystallography etc. I gravitated towards UNIX. I literally had Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie help me debug my first C code. I was also able to play the Alles Synthesizer the first Digital Synthesizer. Robert Wilson himself showed us around the horn antenna on a field trip to Crawford Hill. This is where he and Arno Penzias detected the 3k background proving the Big Bang Theory. I later earned a bachelor of science in physics and then went on to a 40 year career in information technology. I quite literally owe my career to Walter Brown and Bell Laboratories. It’s a shame that we’ll never see the likes of it ever again. I was truly blessed to be a child of a “Labbie” which was the term used for those who worked there.

[@deepbludude4697]

Great story thanks for sharing!

[@kalpdruma]

Dennis Ritchie helped debug your C code - No one can be luckier that you. It's like Euclid teaching geometry.

[@natewagner5746]

Penzaias and big bang are fake science scammers

[@svfolli]

I had the pleasure of spending 6 month as a research intern at Bell-Labs, and it's been the most amazing place I've been at. The open collaboration and intrinsic drive to do amazing things was just everywhere. Everyday lunch in the local cafeteria was like a science conference. Thanks for making this documentary!

[@chenjus]

I love this format. Do more please! Also Yann LeCun was at Bell Labs where he combined convolutional neural networks with backpropagation which led to the revolution in computer vision i.e. the 2012 breakthrough of AlexNet which kicked off the current deep learning revolution.

[@SisterKate13]

Wow. Thanks

[@1stPrinciplesFM]

Imagine if every university had one of these. Instead we just try to produce more professors

[@viggipedia]

I think healthy R&D sector needs both. Stanford and PARC were quite symbiotic. Professors and academics can approach exploratory research topics freely without profit incentive. Meanwhile the entrepreneur and spinoff can take a portion of it to address market opportunities. I think US had pioneered this model of science entrepreneurship through orgs like NSF and NIH.

[@neukin]

eh idk, i think every university kinda dumps money into labs and makes patents.

[@user-jm8fj7ez8s]

@@neukin yeah they dump money to profs in hopes they find a good patent and roll in cash for the uni

[@jmoney4695]

You’re forgetting that Bell Labs employed 1200 PhDs. No university has that kind of money, for a research division alone. Not to mention the huge expense of actually running the lab.

[@churblefurbles]

@@jmoney4695 in part because they waste their resources on diploma mill PhDs.

[@AnesthesiaDan]

Back in the mid-1970s, I was fortunate to be part of a “computer geeks” Explorers troop based out of Bell Labs in Whippany NJ. The Bell Labs staff who worked with us were wonderful mentors, and we were given access to many of their impressive computer resources. Here I was, a 15 year old teenager, writing programs to generate mazes and Spirograph patterns in FORTRAN on a very expensive Tektronix computer graphics terminal connected to a massive IBM 370 mainframe running TSO. It was truly an amazing experience which I fondly look back on to this day.

[@jdcrunchman999]

what did they teach you about Blue Boxes?

[@andrewleonardi3351]

One connection that blows my mind: Claude Shannon's work was inspired by George Boole's Boolean algebra. And George Boole is the great-great-grandfather of Geoffrey Hinton, who just won the Nobel Prize for neural networks, the tech behind ChatGPT.

[@AlfredCerwensky]

Genetics, simply put...

[@juliuseskola1281]

So cool you made a video about this! When I was getting into the computer hobby as a teenager, I read about Bell Labs and also realized almost instantly when looking at their inventions how hugely influential they were. Virtually every electronic gadget we enjoy today and take for granted uses one of their inventions in one way or another…

[@TreeLuvBurdpu]

"They were so big that the government had to break them up" ignores the fact that the government MADE THEM that big. When i was young, it was illegal to buy a phone cord or wire from someone other than AT&T.

[@thesoutherndonkey]

The government screws up most things it meddles in.

[@redwireless]

I had the opportunity to work in the very last days right before the downfall and subsequent sale of Bell Labs that had morphed into Lucent Technologies from 1998 to Y2K. It was NOT the ambience that you described in your video - we were indeed working in breakthrough tech such as the 1st 2nd and 3rd 'G' of cellular telecom (CDMA), but it was grueling, long days and nights with some 80+hrs per week stints! The pressure from Wall Street was so big that 'corners' began getting cut, bad deals and acquisitions made and, what did the last straw for me, the insanity (and flop) over Y2k led IMHO to its fall from grace. To think that something so profound for America like Bell Labs was sold - first to french Alcatel, who sold it (and now owned) to nordic Nokia to me is simply mind-boggling. Great video! 🔴

[@stug77]

I like how radar was invented by every major country in WW2 almost entirely independently and every single one claims primary credit.

[@s0nnyburnett]

American radar was better than japanese radar and part of the reason they lost the battle at sea.

[@kyleatherton88]

Was first explored by a german, but, although many nations where working on it, the most significant radar advancements made around ww2 era where definately by the british. One of which was the magnetron system

[@jefffpv2759]

Tesla

[@videolabguy]

@@jefffpv2759 Tesla married a pigeon. Worship not false idols. Though Tesla made some major and important breakthroughs, he was a terrible business man and 90% of his ideas came to nothing. This what probably drives the mystique surrounding his memory. Side note. Tesla was driven from his homeland by Islamic invaders. Lucky us here in America.

[@shy404usernotfound]

The USA, British and eventually the Soviets all took German scientists and engineers etc.

[@darshchoksi1577]

You guys are really onto something huge, the brilliant minds of tomorrow need inspirational sources like this channel to be exactly that. Incredible work!

[@andrewgates8158]

Shut down>>>the dharma project.

[@gaojen3365]

Thank for this. My grandfather worked at Holmdel Complex in New Jersey. And by the time that I vaguely understood what he worked on, he was no longer around to ask questions of. So I have been trying to gather examples and images of his time there, with limited success. I did order the book, and look forward to reading it. My grandfather worked on the transatlantic cable, Telstar, the Picturephone, and some of the precursors of the modern cell phone, including post Bell Labs work with Marty Cooper of Motorola.

[@johnopalko5223]

I worked for Bell Labs at Indian Hill (Naperville, IL) from 1980 through 1987. It was the most enjoyable almost eight years of my entire career. Not only did that place have the highest concentration of brains per square foot I've ever seen, management went out of their way to make work enjoyable and rewarding. I reluctantly left for two reasons: (a) things were beginning to change after Divestiture and it was becoming less fun and (b) I had an opportunity to move to Seattle and not have to suffer through any more Chicago winters. Maybe some day I will share stories about DMERT and Autoplex.

[@TestTubeBabySpy]

Even though I was born after the 1984 breakup, the Western Electric Rod & Wire mill in Chicago was bought and started back up. It operated until 2008. I had the great opportunity to work there for a few years before the owner shut us down. I got to operate some of the original Western Electric equipment that they helped develop with SCR, Southwire Continuous Rod. I was a coiler operator, shaft furnace operator and rolling mill operator. This mill casted and milled the copper rod stock used in high quality wire drawing. I posted a video abt it.

[@jackgt1991]

My father worked there from 1982-1984 right before the divestiture. The sad thing is I have no idea what he did there for two years and he has since passed away. I have read The Ideal Factory and love it. There is so much romance in these labs that existed in the 20th century. Our modern digital world was essentially started by Bell Labs.

[@jonkeau5155]

Another guy in the comments named Harry Mendell said he worked there during that time period…

[@thingsnstuff85]

Thank you for the video man. I honestly feel honored just to watch it. What humans who put their minds together can do, is very inspiring, WOW 🙌

[@autingo6583]

when you watch content like this about things that really matter, with such high production value and understandable for all kinds of audiences, you notice how kaput legacy media is.

[@wormjuice7772]

Its the difference between passion and entertainment. This cant be made without the first 🎉

[@SHO1989]

Agreed. I stumbled on this video and had the same thoughts. So we'll done and with passion and enthusiasm. Subscribed and look forward to more. Legacy media can die off fast enough.

[@paradiddlediddle8630]

My dad supervised the first digital cutover to the modern dial tone in the Bay Area of California. Initially the entire phone dropped. He was a special line to Bell Labs. Luckily with in a short time it came back live digital. As soon as they broke up his beloved company of 33 years, he retired. He was not happy with the break up.

[@jdcrunchman999]

Don't they "cut-over" a little piece at a time?

[@Ryxbar]

The work you all do here at S3 is insane and VERY valuable, both in terms of current viewership, entertainment, and education, and also going forward in terms of marking our (humanity's) progress in technology throughout a period that will later be represented in a textbook with high school students sighing over it. Great stuff. Keep it up

[@gordon1201]

How the hell do you only have 85k subs?? The quality of your work is unrivalled!

[@dertythegrower]

I called 100k by the end of 2024, and that was 6 months ago at 25k or so ha

[@joeyhoy1995]

Well they added 5k in 3 days soooo

[@kbbl102.5]

Horribly obnoxious narrator w/ punchable face is my guess. Very unlikeable. Good info though.

[@HS-rw1fo]

Love this new s3 style. Looking forward to seeing what you dive into next!

[@douiejordan7990]

My father worked his whole life with Western Electric frim 1959 to early retirement in 1983. He did a lot of Bell Labs installations and twar outs all across the country in their labs and sub stations. I remember as a kid sometimes he take me with him for a day or two when working close to home. It was amazing some of the places we'd go, big underground bunkers with giant generators and equipment that people are unaware that uts there. He used to bring all kinds of gadgets and stuff home that they wasn't going to use. My brother take stuff apart and repurpose it into something else. Gad boxes full of different transistor tubes that Alan, my brother would make old radios and amps work again.

[@matts7663]

Thank you for this video, it was great to watch this! Bell was a big part of my family. My grand uncles were errand boys for Alexander Grand Bell, my grandfather helped develop radar and my grandmother worked a switchboard for Bell.

[@wyattbottorff2473]

We need a Bell Labs scale exploration of organic chemistry, agriculture, ecology and human health/physiology. If we can heal ourselves, feed ourselves, AND heal our ecosystems we will live WELL with technology. Not just live.

[@s0nnyburnett]

You need morals and ethics to live well anywhere at anytime and technology doesn't and never will address that problem.

[@wyattbottorff2473]

@s0nnyburnett I didn't say anything about technology, per say. My fields are regenerative agriculture, permaculture, and natural medicine. It isn't all about technology.

[@beardedopinions336]

It'll come give it another 1,000 years

[@knrz2562]

Itsz called bio-technology everything u just said isz being developed rn!😮

[@knrz2562]

@@wyattbottorff2473I specialize in chemistry/ biology the only true sciences!🧑🏽‍🔬🧫🧬🔬!

[@videolabguy]

Book ordered. Thanks! I had the chance to interview members of the Ampex videotape recorder team and become friends with many of them. (Before their passing.) Maybe not as big as bell labs, the same genius was at work there as well. Open your eyes people. You are surrounded by greatness. It is everywhere, here and now. Don't miss it.

[@wubbzyfan1203]

its the people who are great, i agree. its the evil gov we slowly gave consent to rule over all aspects of our lives that is def not great. they do this w everything, everything good, helpful to humanity they twist into something for harm

[@AaronNel]

Really good journalism. Very happy to hear you are covering topics like this as well.

[@chrissuozzo]

Absolutely fantastic work on this, please keep these coming, you are killing it!

[@Rawi888]

Bro.... thank you for this video. You inspired a childlike sense of wonder for me. I wish school was like this, I always knew I was missing the "whys" (stories) in all my lessons.

[@RattledPan]

Plain ol' WOW! You've got me hooked! I was one of those people that made it my mission never to work for a business that was implementing computer systems. I wasn't diagnosed as having dyscalculia (think: Math dyslexia) until I was 64, so I finally gave in and joined what I lampoon: the Pepsi Generation. I started working for Kinkos just as they were putting in computers for rent. Boy, a crash course on PCs & Macs. Note the grey in my hair. I believe that the innovation that comes out of our government now, and then in turn, our military force, as odious as it is, is a big driver of innovation. The connection between that, computers and computer languages and the drive for innovation which drives profits in the private sector. From that, the innovation goes back and forth from the military. It's an interesting puzzle and conundrum to explore, too. I think the AT&T model collapsed on the weight of itself. It never thought of itself as vulnerable, a great quality in the beginning but was its undoing. Innovation gets bumped around in the wind of having something tangible ASAP to be a contracted window of expectation. What if new models of anything came out when they were ready to, and who would make the call when that would be?

[@lilblackduc7312]

Phenomenal! Some of the topics you covered are memories of mine, in my 66yrs. Others are things I learned while researching this topic, independently. Thank you for tying all the points of interest together with a common thread and a common narrative...🇺🇸 👍☕

[@tyates.]

This is great! Thanks for making this, and I look forward to seeing more from S3

[@LeMortso]

I was raised by a ATT Employee, and I relished the monthly ATT magazine that he brought home, in it they talked about the invention of the Laser in '58... I was 7 years old and it hooked me into science, a fascination that's never left me. Thanks for a GREAT video!

[@petermorse1331]

Wow! What a thoughtful, intellectual, entertaining presentation. I’m glad a stumbled on this video and look forward to more! Cheers!

[@WenderPottery]

My grandfather worked for bell labs after leaving the navy as a radio engineer for something like 20 years. He speaks about working theres almost daily and this was so awesome to see show up on my feed! Thanks!

[@debartoloant]

One of my favorite videos! thanks for the high quality content.

[@fasteddie9475]

Read the book several years ago, fascinating how they put it all together and your presentation was superb, thanks for what you do, makeing a difference!

[@Lodebek]

Nicely done! A great reminder that innovation needs to be cultivated-it doesn’t always happen in a garage or by slipping on a toilet, as modern culture might have you believe. Keep up the good work!

[@Kouatchoudjakouronald]

This is arguably the best KZbin video I have ever watched.

[@AndrewBrown-xr8pn]

I love the Easter Egg you included at 01:58 that's a nod to Bell Labs' invention of time travel by how you included the invention of Information Theory (1948) between that of the CCD (1969) and UNIX (1969).

[@kbbl102.5]

It's not an Easter egg, this channel is all aesthetics with zero substance

[@jessefrank743]

Love it! Keep it up, like this format!

[@todd.mitchell]

Great video! My dad got his start as a EE at the NJ lab. He and Mom lived in a little Airstream trailer while he worked there. Lotta grit and frugality. Could use more of that these days.

[@bobyoung1698]

I went to college with a student whose father worked at Bell Labs, probably in the mid- to late 1960s. It sounded like the place to be at the time if you were into high technology.

[@TommyTippy598]

Subscribed. THANK YOU, this was so interesting. I remember waiting for a private line, direct long distance, touch tone, and later Caller ID boxes. I remember calling the operator and calling 411. And in the 80's or 90's when you get goofy phones made by many others that you didn't have to pay for on the phone bill. Like a lot of people we wired up the house using speaker wire and had phones out the wazoo. Great explanations for how all this came to be.

[@SignFairies]

Very very well done!! Thank you so much for sharing. The long game doesn't really exist that much anymore when profit is involved and PE firms. There is something so refreshing about being at company who's foundation is built on the long game, removing the need for short term gains. Bell Labs seems like a magical place that new with AT&T behind them, the funds weren't going to dry up or suddenly take a position that compelled short term thinking. The freedom behind that type of thinking is wonderful and inspiring. Thanks for sharing. I'm not surprised at all the federal government squashed it. Dummies.

[@christianzazzali2720]

I grew up in Holmdel, NJ, in the 70s. We were the children of the bell labs employees. The local High school was a magical time for competitive academics.

[@JoshuaDSX]

I greatly enjoy your content, well produced and structurally informative.

[@monolyth1]

man your channel is amazing

[@armaanajoomal]

can’t even describe how beautiful this video is. pristine editing. gorgeous music. great sfx and pacing. seriously well done - need a video on Skunkworks next :)

[@kbbl102.5]

I only wish they could have a different narrator

[@wyatt1339]

The Bell Labs headquarters in Holmdel now has offices for rent and a shared workspace on the ground floor that is open to the public and has restaurants. The grounds are beautiful too, nice pond and park with outdoor patios. It was a great place to study when I was in college at Rutgers.

[@fm9572]

Bell Labs had a facility in Burlington NC, that reputedly made guidance systems for ICBMs before it was closed. There have been several attempts since the mid 1980's to re-occupy the building, but the cost to clean up the (alleged) nuclear waste would be astronomical. There's a National Guard facility a block over from the former Bell labs building, facing the former employee parking lot, that despite it's small size, has avoided being closed by budget cuts, and was actually security hardened after 9/11/2001. The 236th Brigade Engineer Battalion Armory Support operates out of the NG facility. I'd love to see a documentary done on that building.

[@jayebyrd9953]

My elementary school years was in the late 60's. When the teacher would set up the film projector, I would be excited to see it was a Bell Labs science film. They were geared towards younger school age kids.

[@chrissahar2014]

It is your age that explains why you may not have known about Bell Labs. Anyone over 55 knows Bell Lab just through the pay telephones that used to abound on streetscapes. Also musicians who learn mid century electronic music, Bell Labs participated along with other research centers in the development of electronic music composition and electronically produced instruments for the mass market (also to improve telecommunications in such areas as sound quality of communications and voice recording equipment and systems).

[@smoothguitarforever]

Severance being filmed at the bell labs building makes that show even more epic

[@alfaxadeyembe6035]

Godspeed Jason!! S3 is dope 🚀🔥🔥

[@ThootenTootinTabootin]

Bro, this was honestly an awesome video. You earned a sub.

[@cidadaoPPT]

I don’t have words to describe how perfect this video was. Thank you for your work and please continue this format. This was simply PERFECT!

[@kbbl102.5]

Only wish they had a different narrator!

[@inheritance1097]

Incredible video man, absolutely deserves a sub. Hope you keep pushing these type of videos.

[@R-ecipes864]

Claude Shannon’s statistics of language probably laid the groundwork for the predictive typing algorithms that we all despise in our e-mail systems today.

[@Ed.Shadowman]

Absolutely loved it. Love the style of video. Very informative. Just clicked subscribe.

[@simonramos485]

I am a Field Engineer on top of being a Sound Communications Journeyman that was organized in to the IBEW-NECA straight out of PacBell Central Offices from where I started my career as a Central Office Equipment Installer over 27 years ago... I helped tear down the 12'ft. Analog rack environments 2 decades ago in all the CO's across silicon valley,..down to the now universally standard 7'ft racks that we commonly see in every telco room... 🤭🧐🤣 dude I fact checked this video and I gotta say you did a great job relaying this infromation lol honestly good job...

[@Clutch_Kick187]

Also a field engineer for the big guys.. started in 1999 as an operator in a central office. Been replacing all the old 1985-86 plant in the ground for nearly over 25yrs now..

[@3mb0t]

The ending passage brought tears to my eyes. I work with machine learning models within marketing and it's hard to not feel like a cog in the machine, but this brought me out of it. There are real humans behind every massive feat of technology. Every advancement was made by holding hands with a human and then we let it go to run its task.

[@blech71]

My grandfather worked with them… he strung the frost telephone lines in Idaho and ended up putting the red phone system in NORAD. I def believe how wild and big Bell was back then.

[@davidcohen12345]

remarkable coverage of a remarkable company. i have friends that worked at Bellcore and I was less stellar than them. One of them was the son of the research partner of Claude. This was a fascinating Business model and academic environment, the opposite of the tightly structured IBM.

[@JohnFordJr-sh9ov]

Well,thanks,I incorporated in '83,so this information helps me understand why it took over forty years to see that I was only telling the truth,that's a lot of compensations coming,especially for the patents that I want to register,I'm watching all advancements,and keeping track of how to maintain networks so that all systems can function seamlessly,your confirmations means quite a bit,wish me luck going forward,By His Grace,In Loving ❤️ Gratitude.

[@GoGrowGoGrow]

Amazing video. Great format. First one I’ve seen from your channel. Subscribed !!!

[@Renvoxan]

awesome, next ones to look at: - early ARPA and the ideas like ("we should build an antenna the size of the whole state of Wisconson and maybe part of Minnesota" to communicate with submarines - project Orion (a rocket powered by nuclear bombs) - Project Plowshare (using nukes for civilian infrastructure projects)

[@SamZ]

I love this new style of video! Would watch a lot more!

[@SB-lc2vd]

S3 is an inspiration for the young engineer. I was an engineer at Bell Labs Whippany in 1990/91, it was an amazing place. Sad to see it gone. I hope Elons Companies soon have a play box for outrageous ideas

[@corrodedzine6320]

Great stuff! Longer episodes!!

[@pfoe]

Production quality of S3 is absolutely next level

[@kbbl102.5]

If only they could get a different narrator :(

[@forddupont2594]

A similar ideal of innovating occurred at 3M as well. Employees were allowed to pursue ideas, and sometimes mistakes, which lead to things such as: Scotch tape, Scotch magnetic recording tapes which revolutionized the music and motion picture industries, post-it notes, wet/dry sandpaper, scotch guard, solar films, masking tape, reflective safety coatings on every traffic sign and first responders garments, the first office copiers and later color copiers, and the list goes on. 3M by the way stands for Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing and it all started with 5 guys in Two Harbors Minnesota and a failed attempt at using Lake Superior sand to produce sandpaper. They went on to build a giant industry by capitalizing on mistakes.

[@flyinpolack6633]

That's great info, thanks! They still make great products today.

[@ehhhh12897]

17:32 Unix DID NOT become Linux, Linux came from a completely separate background, Linus Torvalds from finland.

[@c2vi_dev]

Let's call it "heavily inspired"?...... xD

[@willmungas8964]

As I recall from my OS class Linus was working on HIS OS class in university, where they worked with/implemented an OS called Minix which was UNIX-based. He got sick of the things it did poorly and thought he could do better, so he did just that

[@jsdcool3401]

Linux was built to be UNIX like. But specifically not use any code from the close source and priority UNIX

[@davidc8735]

Having lived pretty closely to this UNIX history, I love Linux, but I think of Linux as UNIX x.0 (we had so many versions in the 80’s) I loved the ‘restart’!

[@kbbl102.5]

This channel is all aesthetics w/ zero substance

[@jamiechapman1579]

Excellent work, really good episode. Please keep them coming!

[@batcow6623]

Great video, as a robotics engineer undergraduate these videos inspire me to do something great for humanity!

[@jasoncarman_]

best feedback ever, thank you! we're working hard to make our videos even better for ya1

[@tinatian2470]

same here, robotics engineer who wants to make something good for humanity:) working a startup recently. hope to chat with you more!

[@jimh3500]

Very interesting subject and brilliant exposition. My first experience with this channel and I’m now a subscriber. Cheers for the respect shown to source material. Well done, sir.

[@mglmouser]

Xerox’s Parc labs too had enormous impact.

[@zephyrproductions9928]

As someone from New Jersey, where Bell had a VERY strong foothold, THANK YOU for making this video!

[@Ivrob]

I would love to see you do more videos with some aerospace startups, no matter how small or big. Great video, thank you!

[@jasonjohnson1690]

That was great, well done, very interesting. I had heard of Bell labs but didn’t know any of what you explained. Thanks.

[@PeaceIndustrialComplex]

What an awesome video and great summary of an incredible institution that has developed technologies that are the basis of our current society. If you'll permit a minor correction, I understand you were keeping things short for brevity's sake: The development of Unix inspired the Linux project but it wasn't the direct successor, the BSD project was. For many commercial operating systems from the mid 70s well into the 2000s, BSD flavors and Unix progeny were the main OS in use. Linux didn't really see widespread adoption for commercial systems until the mid to late 90s. I'm sure there's more details I left out as well but the history of these projects is worth it's own video imho.

[@s3_build]

Yes that's correct and I deeeffinitely skimmed over that. My apologies. Thank you for commenting this!

[@arianamaria_]

The bell labs building in Holmdel NJ was converted into a mix use mall/business park and it’s one of the best examples of building reclamation/reuse I’ve ever seen! I worked a few coverage shifts at the library there and they were always super fun just bc you get to see such a cool place. Definitely recommend checking it out in you’re in the Monmouth county area!

[@sheilatraynor2758]

We called it M a bell.

[@Contraption]

Great piece. More, please. Also - Microsoft Research is another example of industrial research funded by a very profitable monopoly. Their contributions are not appreciated as much as they should be. A future video maybe?

[@Hippiemechanic]

My great grandfather worked for bell labs and is on some of their old patents! Thank you for the video.

[@ClydeWPhillipsJr]

I was blessed to work at the Bell Labs and Network Services at the Indian Hill Campus in Naperville Il. I worked the Air Traffic Control 2000 bid, and was the government liaison for the million-page bid document, in troff~! With @ 300-page difs to deliver every month! 5 IBM Mainframes running Unix VM's. Saved them millions in just auditing disk usage with DU command. Tim Berners lee ran the hypertext roll out there. Ran tests on the 5ESS and RMS switches and integrated the modern cellphone feature list in ISDN. Created the hi-speed sideband networks to signal long distance calls to remote switches instead of just connecting the line, saving massive bandwidth. I had a 30 foot 3.2 GBS satellite dish out my window (the campus was beautiful, with atrium interiors) and would time char pings to Chinese university students. We hosted some of the greatful.dead usenews groups, while Phish was starting up. 7 glorious years~!

[@animatedgifmusic]

Today, Bell Labs is re-built and re-launched as "Bell Works" and my company's office is in the building! It's open to the public in Holmdel, NJ. The best day to visit is Wednesday because there's usually a market in the atrium with local vendors, artists, and food! There is so much history still visible, and the campus is as beautiful as ever. I'll see you there!

[@dkjoses12]

I was amazed how beautiful the place is. I was there 2 years ago and I still want to go back and walk the area. Too bad some of the higher levels are closed off because I’d like to get a view from the top looking down

[@wyatt1339]

I used to study there in college and it was great. Way better than my dingy dorm room.

[@arednecksgarage]

I've always enjoyed Bell Labs and ATT rabbit holes I've watched many videos on both of them and their achievements the failures and everything in between and even though I knew the majority of everything you went over in this video It's nice to hear it from a different point of view a different perspective a different narrator because you can pick out different things in their history that others may have glossed over or didn't dive into because It wasn't interesting to them so thank you for your video

[@jarettmcdonald349]

Respect for Shockley

[@wdavis6814]

He always has his name dragged thru the dirt for his later views - but he was undeniably one of the most important minds in his era.

[@Padoinky]

Bell labs mostly in NJ, Battell Institute in CBUS OH and Xerox PARC Labs in Northern California

[@c2vi_dev]

I LITERALY Cried. (at around 13:10). Bell Labs was so AWSOME. I know from a small scale makerspace club at my school how cool it is to have a place/environment, where great technical and science ppl come together. It's a distant dream of mine to make a new Bell Labs like place a thing.

[@hotlightning9496]

You need help if you cried… wow

[@WhiteWolfos]

​@@hotlightning9496 people have different passions. Maybe you need to work on finding yours if you haven't cried for something so marvel yet

[@c2vi_dev]

@@hotlightning9496 ahhmm no..... obviosly I wasn't sad, just emotional.....

[@Nick-wj9bc]

My mom works for Boeing in the Space defense section, while at the plant in Huntington Beach, CA she would always get to chat with the engineers and other project managers since she works on dual projects and got to hear their dual projects and was always interested so they signed her on to them depending on clarifications. Now that she works from home, she's not around all these great minds other than a few hours a month during a launch phase. With trust comes more interest and I try to survive of that but sadly, we have little practice in it as a society.

[@m3talHalide-rt2fz]

Alphabet is the answer to who's the labs now. Look at the number of Nobel prizes awarded for work done within google. Dad worked at Whippany- they were also deeply involved in US intelligence. Between work on signal processing and experience working with fiber on the sea floor, they were the experts. After lots of upheaval which looking back, followed the fall of the Berlin wall, as Lucent Bell Labs, they developed 3g mostly with Qualcomm. We tried a non-monopolized telco system, but with some carriers on CDMA and some on TDMA, coverage sucked, and we kinda went back to the universal model with 4G/LTE.

[@JV-wl6ex]

Early 2000’s I worked on a big sprint buildout in San Diego-LA area and Lucents 3G MOD cell (CDMA) was deployed for their new network. Fast forward 5 years and I was a CM working on Cingular wireless’s new site buildout to replace the towers the DOJ demanded in order for them to bless Cingulars buyout of AT&T wireless. A year later Cingular wireless changed their name to what the US knows to this day as AT&T Mobility. Lucent won the 3G BTS contract (UMTS 3G which looked almost identical as their CDMA product, and had expansion slots to accommodate up to 3 additional carriers spectrum adds where capacity was a bottleneck. Carrier adds kept me so busy after the initial 3G launch because of the world changing iPhone and then Android based phones that basically is every humans RFID today. Reeling myself back in regarding Lucent, I don’t know all of their internal affairs but from what I experienced that they had management problems within and it felt like it got worse in when they merged with Alcatel and became Alcatel-Lucent. They managed to snag the 4G LTE BTS AT&T contract which was a cell tower design revolution introducing the radios to be installed behind the antennas and fiber optics and DC power trunks feeding the radios. Cell tower tech prior was usually the typical 50 ohm coax from 1/2” to 2-1/4” in size depending on the coax lengths needed. The radio head design that was integrated cleaned up all the loss from using copper as their pipeline. A LOT of tower retrofitting had to be done on legacy towers and 3rd party towers including rooftops because of the weights and wind loading of the radio heads that had to be installed. I was always a contracted CM for AT&T and the market manager expected me to micromanage Alcatel-Lucent (ALU is what they were called locally) and they hated that and fought it and I didn’t want to manage those kooks either. The market manager I totally respected as he was a great teacher to me in my field and I would always do what was asked and that would come with some expenses to my career. 3/4 of the build is done, I now no longer have that job (another story) and go do some 2.5gHz sprint work and Verizon TMA deployments. A year or so later I pick up a new job working for a blast from the past…who? Nokia…..aka Alcatel-Lucent!! In the Vegas market ALU had become the BTS dominatrix and now had their equipment with AT&T, VZW, and Sprint. So now that the Nokia name badge is out there, the new chiefs have development make a new 5G BTS which takes half of the footprint it did in the equipment shelter which isn’t that significant from 4G to 5G. Then the brass struck deals with all 3 companies to swap out all of the ALU LTE equipment for this new Nokia 5G equipment they named AirScale. Each carriers contract is somewhat different im guess and AT&T must have paid out of the nose because Nokia did the swap out for free. VZW and Sprint both had a new contract and VZW handled some of the rack equipment a little different while sprint people are lazy and corrupt and didn’t pay too much attention to the CM part because they were looking for bribes and other types of under the table crap which would dictate which contractors picked up work. I bring this up as nome of the cell carriers are clean from this but sprint was the worst because corruption was present at every level in their office and the LA office manages the LV office as a satellite so the folks in Vegas got away with it all, including making up their own job titles. Sorry for ranting, I don’t know that I would be typing out all of this. Bell labs did so much innovating for the up and coming telecom industry and did it on their own. They hired the best of the best and while I can understand that monopolies are a bad thing, I’m not sue by splitting it up did anything but harm to an industry that used to have every high standards. Most of the wireless industry still uses the CO TP quality, installation, and grounding standards that were drafted up back in the day. Thank you for the video, I have done some of my own digging on them over the years including their wireline point to point microwave backhaul they had installed from coast to coast. I also managed the new microwave installs and I was always fascinated by their abandoned big old aluminum cornucopia antenna network. ☮️