Bell Labs

[Perknose]

Part of the very best of America, imho.

A private monopoly that well and nobly served the public interest, brought to you by that evil Big Government:

In 1921, the federal government exempted AT&T from antitrust regulations, allowing Bell Labs to pursue—as Gertner has it—a “mission to connect all of us, and all of our new machines, together.”

At Bell Labs, a sense of humor, not to mention patience, was required during a period that Shockley described as “the natural blundering process of finding one’s way.” The path to lasers, radars, satellites, and decent phone service was full of all manner of unplanned genius and gee-whiz. Bell Labs had to keep “inventing ways to invent those things”...

My FAVE PART! :biggrin:

Shannon also puckishly designed an “Ultimate Machine”: simply a box with a button and a hand that emerged to shut it off...

 

[FoBoT]

lego version
http://youtu.be/PcPd8ft4h84

 

[KevinCU]

My favorite part was when your post ended.