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In 1939, an astonishing new machine debuted at the New York World’s Fair. It was called the “Voder,” short for “Voice Operating Demonstrator.” It looked sort of like a futuristic church organ. An operator — known as a “Voderette” — sat at the Voder’s curved wooden console with a giant speaker towering behind her. She faced an expectant audience,

The world's oldest wedge-based anechoic chamber enabled critical acoustic research.

Kao's landmark paper on fiber-optic communications celebrates 50 years this month

Too long, too slow, too many laurels - Short of the Week's Ivan Kander has watched thousands of short film's and knows exactly where most are going wrong.

Our connected world is about to go hyperbolic. The changes wrought by a nexus of global, high-speed connectivity, billions of connected devices (IoT), cloud services and non-stop data streaming, collection and big data analytics will bring unprecedented stress on network operators and opportunities for business automation and efficiency. It’s a confluence of changes the president of Bell Labs contends will lead to a “new technological revolution” analogous to the agricultural or industrial…

Up to 1954, solar cells could not produce enough electricity to power electrical devices. However, in 1954, Bell Labs scientists Daryl Chapin, Calvin Fuller, and Gerald Pearson constructed a solar cell with 6% efficiency, providing enough electricity to run electrical devices.

https://archive.org/details/communications_primerIf you can cope with 20 min monotone narration 50's style, I swear there's fire and flow. His theory explained in this cult "Is it art?" Educational IBM film. LINK https://archive.org/embed/communications_prime

This ninth entry of Photovoltaics Miniseries celebrating the UN’s 2015 Year of Light features JohnPerlin, author of “Let It Shine: The 6000-Year Story ofSolar Energy,” looking further at the impact of the semiconductor revolution

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