No association between Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory and Bell Labs Earlier on this page had enquired Name origin Wasn t the parent company and hence weren t the labs named after Alexander Graham Bell No mention of him can I find here Carrionluggage Today User BilCat deleted a recent section addition to the article titled Early namesake in its entirety which chronicled the Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory also known as the Volta Laboratory which A G Bell created after he won the Volta Prize The deleted section was titled Early namesake for the reason that there was an association by name as follows 1876 A G Bell receives master phone patent becomes part owner of the Bell Telephone Company later renamed American Bell Telephone Company 1880 A G Bell creates the Volta Laboratory a k a the Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory for research into sound recording and transmission including the photophone also 1880 the management of American Bell created what would become AT T Long Lines A G Bell still owns shares in ABTC and hence thus is part owner of AT T he remains Chief Electrician of ABTC and its children for several years 1881 Western Union withdrew from the telephone market and allowed Bell Telephone to acquire its telephone manufacturing arm Western Electric 1885 The long lines project was formally incorporated into a separate company named American Telephone and Telegraph Company AT T 1899 the American Telephone and Telegraph Company bought the assets of American Bell that would appear to be a friendly takeover of the parent corporation by the child 1925 Bell Labs is created and assumes the research roles conducted by Western Electric Research Laboratories and part of AT T s engineering department Whether any research projects were passed from the Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory to the Western Electric Research Laboratories or AT T Engineering and then onto the newly created Bell Labs is moot since the section was entitled Early namesake and never inferred that there was such a connection That there was a connection by name and share ownership as shown above is obvious therefore the deleted section has now been reinstated as pertinent to the Bell Labs article Comments