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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

With Jon Gertner, a writer for The New York Times Magazine. Calling Bell Laboratories the most innovative institution of the 20th century, the author reveals the forces behind its creativity. Bell Labs, which thrived from the 1920s to the ’80s, was a citadel of science and scholarship, birthplace of the century’s most influential technologies, and a hotbed of creative thinking. In this illustrated lecture he explains why researchers and business leaders alike look to Bell Labs as a model—and long to incorporate its magic into their own work.











When: Mon., Oct. 15, 2012 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
476 Fifth Ave. (42nd St. Entrance)
212-340-0863
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With Jon Gertner, a writer for The New York Times Magazine. Calling Bell Laboratories the most innovative institution of the 20th century, the author reveals the forces behind its creativity. Bell Labs, which thrived from the 1920s to the ’80s, was a citadel of science and scholarship, birthplace of the century’s most influential technologies, and a hotbed of creative thinking. In this illustrated lecture he explains why researchers and business leaders alike look to Bell Labs as a model—and long to incorporate its magic into their own work.

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