Tag Archives: Bell Labs

who the heck was Geo E Smith?

Posted on June 8, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. We all know about the contributions of Daguerre, Fox Talbot, Scott Archer, Dick Maddox, and George Eastman to photography. Most were eccentric, sometimes well-to-do individuals whose ideas have become sign posts along the way in photographic history. By the … Continue reading →

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the start of it all

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Robert

Toronto. And by all, we mean digital photography, not the 1839 analogue photography (metal, glass, film, paper plus liquid solutions). When radio and electronics began early last century, vacuum tubes did not exist. A few years later, on into the … Continue reading →

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si si d, doctor B

Posted on October 15, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. Years ago, I discovered Bell Labs via the journal, Bell Systems Technical Journal. One issue in particular impressed me since it included a cardboard 78 rpm record of a computer singing, ‘A Bicycle Built for Two’!  Now-a-days computers are … Continue reading →

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