Bell System Centennial: 100 Years of Publishing on Telecommunications
Bell System Technical Journal · 1976
This year the United States is celebrating the bicentennial of its founding 200 years of change, crises, and invention. At the beginning of the nation's second century, in March 1876, the “speaking telephone” was invented. With it began 100 years of research and development in telecommunications a technology whose influence on the growth of the nation and, indeed, of all western nations, has been profound. The continual improvement and expansion of telecommunications has depended on the depth and diversity of technical research and development. And, if research and development is to encompass all the economic and physical requirements of a growing telecommunications system, it must be founded upon an active exchange of ideas.