Memories: A Personal History of Bell Telephone Laboratories
| Author | A. Michael Noll |
|---|---|
| Published | 2015 |
| Format | Book |
| Original | Read the original |
TL;DR — A former Bell Labs researcher’s memoir of the Murray Hill laboratory in the 1960s: its buildings, people, culture and way of doing research.
Released in 2015 as a Michigan State University Quello Center working paper. A. Michael Noll was an engineer and researcher at Bell Labs’ Murray Hill site for most of the 1960s and later a professor at USC’s Annenberg School.
It describes the lab’s locations, amenities, management and people, and sets Bell Labs in the tradition of Edison’s invention factory, arguing its environment resembles what is now associated with Silicon Valley.
What it is: a personal memoir by an insider, released free by the author; a primary-source account rather than a history.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- Hosted by the IEEE History Center’s Engineering and Technology History Wiki: https://ethw.org/Archives:Memories_-_A_Personal_History_of_Bell_Telephone_Laboratories (first released by MSU’s Quello Center, August 2015)
- Archived copy (Google Drive): Google Drive
139 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.