Archives of the Bell Laboratories Record (1925-1961)

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18 points·ArtWomb··5 comments

Not to be forgotten is the wonderful HP Journal.

For example, here is an issue from 1972, lots of wonderful technical details about the newly introduced HP-35 calculator: http://hparchive.com/Journals/HPJ-1972-06.pdf

I'd sarcastically say "thanks, Carly" for destroying HP. But I don't think it was a one-man or one-woman effort. I think she had plenty of help.

This is one of those things where I wish I could just take a week out of my life and flip through these. Old school research is so cool.

>>> He retired from the multitude “more in pity than in anger,” to scenes of simple nature, to the pure delights of literature, and to the exercise of domestic virtues -The Mysteries of Udolpho

The tone from the intro to the first issue is remarkable. They invoke Alexander Graham Bell and his invention that allows for the "transmission of intelligence". At every stage they speak about human progress. And how the endgame of their inventions seek to illuminate the world with reason. And elevate humankind out of darkness. Very different than the current vogue in corporate pr speak ;)

I'm sad that we don't have any modern equivalent of Bell labs and it looks like we won't have anything for quite a while. I had a chance to work with a scientist who was at Bell in its golden age and he said that you could just walk down the hall to the water cooler from your office and chat with the the leading researchers of the day in like five disparate fields.

why don't you?

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