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Bonus: More details on how Bell Labs operated

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This was initially a section of my larger Bell Labs post. It would have come between the “Freedom comes in many forms” and “The mobile phone system” sections. I am publishing the section in a separate post because it would have been needless detail to ~85% of the readers. But since the readers who would like this information and make use of it are very important to me, I’ve published the breakdown anyway. For those who do not run research operations or are not really interested in diving further into the details of how Bell Labs ran, feel free to skip this bonus post. To get a better idea of how Bell Labs’ rules of thumb came to life as (possibly) the greatest applied technology lab in human history, there is no better place to start than Mervin Kelly’s speech to the Royal Society: ‘The Bell Telephone Laboratories — an example of an institute of creative technology.’ Mervin Kelly, who in retrospect could be considered Bell’s most impressive manager in terms of big-picture thinking, gav

Shorts Bonus: More details on how Bell Labs operated Eric Gilliam Apr 20, 2023 14 1 Share This was initially a section of my larger Bell Labs post. It would have come between the “Freedom comes in many forms” and “The mobile phone system” sections. I am publishing the section in a separate post because it would have been needless detail to ~85% of the readers. But since the readers who would like this information and make use of it are very important to me, I’ve published the breakdown anyway. For those who do not run research operations or are not really interested in diving further into the

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