The Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.

On January 1, 1925 were organized, for the purpose of carrying on development and research activity in communication and allied fields The Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated. This new company is owned jointly by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Western Electric Co., Inc., with personnel, buildings and equipment from the research laboratories of the two companies. Extensive laboratory facilities are already under way, with new buildings, covering almost a quarter of a city block, to be added to the 400,000 sq. ft. already in service at 463 West Street, New York City. At date of corporation, the personnel approximates 3600, two thousand of whom are members of the technical staff made up of engineers, physicists, chemists, metallurgists and experts in their various fields.