Make a Comment • Email Link • Send Letter to Editor IPFS News Link • Economy - Economics USA Bell Labs' history of inventions 11-30-2006 • AP Bell Labs was founded in 1925 as the research arm of AT&T's national telephone business. Sixty years later, it was spun off as part of Lucent Technologies Inc., which on Thursday was acquired by Paris-based Alcatel SA. Watch Streaming Broadcast Live: LRN.fm Watch live shows and archives TV Live Chat Telegram Share this page with your friends on your favorite social network: