VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[Eddie Eagle]

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/microsofts-anechoic-chamber-sets-record-quietest-place-world-n445576

[Mike Harrison]

Thanks, Eddie. I wasn't aware of Microsoft's chamber.

Bell Labs built an anechoic chamber here, in NJ, at their Murray Hill facility in 1940. It was said that one could hear the blood pulsing in the artery behind their ear.

As much as some of us hate "the phone company," the innovators at Bell Labs, along with Western Electric (the manufacturing and supply unit of what was the Bell System; they built the best phones ever) gave us in July 1962 the communications satellite Telstar (parent AT&T footed the bill and paid NASA for the launch). Prior to that, our network news correspondents filing reports from other countries photographed them on motion picture film, which was then flown back to the US, where they first had to be processed before they could be broadcast. Telstar opened the door for what we take for granted today: instant live feeds from anywhere in the world an uplink truck can get to.

I love innovation.

For those interested, here's the technology timeline of AT&T (they're taking the credit because the rest of the Bell System is gone).
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