Jim’s Reviews > The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation > Status Update

laser, UNIX, digital switching and the start of the breakup.

It was noted that the inventors of 3 of the Bell Labs breakthroughs had only one thing in common. They all occasionally ate lunch with the same person (who was known to ask very good and clarifying questions)

On disk 11, surprisingly engaging.

A one pager on the 10 most important discoveries at Bell Labs
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/por...

on Disk 4: I'm glad they made this book into an audiobook.