Nokia Bell Labs celebrates 100 years of pioneering innovations, shaping the past, present and future

Bell Labs - Claude Shannon In 1948, Bell Labs researcher Claude Shannon develops the fundamentals of Information Theory, spawning the digital age. Bell Labs - Solar Cell Bell Labs invented the solar cell in 1954 with the first successful device to convert the sun's energy directly and efficiently into substantial amounts of electricity. Bell Labs - Telstar 1 In 1962, Bell Labs and NASA launched Telstar 1, changing global communications forever. It was the first orbiting communications satellite ...