[TUHS] bell labs murray hill artifacts

Rob Pike via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Sat Sep 13 10:11:22 AEST 2025


The Shockley-Bardeen-Brattain (sic) transistor you're referring to was just
a replica anyway. The original was lost long ago as part of normal lab
activity.

-rob


On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM ron minnich via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> where's the shockley transistor?
>
> and the map of the US showing the Bell System empire, with a light for each
> central office?
>
> aside: the old RCA labs building is still there in princeton, and the 7
> Emmys are still there in the decaying lobby. But the RCA museum, including
> the TV camera used on Apollo 15 and signed by the astronauts, has been
> broken up and scattered.
>
> Where is the murray hill history?
>


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