Comment by jbarham
14 years ago
For all the genuine innovations that came out of Bell Labs, it's also the case that they killed inventions that would have threatened their telecommunications monopoly, such as the magnetic answering machine that was invented at Bell Labs in 1934!
http://gizmodo.com/5691604/how-ma-bell-shelved-the-future-fo...
No comments yet
Contribute on Hacker News ↗