An 1875 business agreement to develop a talking telegraph becomes the catalyst for The Electronic Revolution and The Information Age.
AT&T Labs Innovations featured in this video:
1800s
The Telephone
The Network
1910s
Air-to-Ground / Ground-to-Air Radio Communication
Vernam Cipher
Dial Telephones
1920s
Fax Service Telephotography
Electrical Sound Recording
Sound Motion Pictures “Vitaphone”
Transatlantic Service via Radio
Long Distance TV Transmission
Broadband Coaxial Cable
1930s
Radio Astronomy
Stereo Recording
Synthetic Speech "The Voder"
Digital Computer
High Frequency Radar
1940s
Automated Switching
Digital Voice Encryption "SIGSALY"
First Mobile Telephone Call
Cellular System
The Transistor
Information Theory
1950s
Missile Defense Systems
The Solar Cell
The Laser
Microwave Radio-Relay Skyway
1960s
Communications Satellites
Echo of The Big Bang
UNIX
Charge-Coupled Device
1970s
Picturephone
Digital Switching
C Programming Language
Single-Chip Digital Signal Processor
Cellular System Field Trials
1980s
C++
Commercial Cellular Telephone System
Speech Driven Robot
HDTV
1990s
Firewalls
Digital Cellular Base Station
Secure Digital Music Delivery
Natural Voices Text-to-Speech
Today
4G
3DTV
Remote Medical Monitoring
64 Tb/s Optical Transmission
Human Factors Lab
WATSON Mobile Voice Search
CollaboraTV
MIRACLE
Geocast
Wireless Technology Lab
Encoding Technologies
Visualizer
Presence
Laser Microprojector
Smart Mobile Computing
Video Realization
Network Based Firewall
Augmented Reality
U-verse Lab
Smart Grid
Mobile Conferencing
Mass Market Video Calling
Network Science
Voice Biometrics
Network Video Quality
Recommender Systems
Project Space
Advanced Network Management
Air Graffiti