Editing Bell Labs (section)

==Publications==
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Western Electric, and other Bell System companies issued numerous publications, such as local house organs, for corporate distribution, for the scientific and industry communities, and for the general public, including telephone subscribers.

The [[Bell Laboratories Record]] was a principal house organ, featuring general interest content such as corporate news, support staff profiles and events, reports of facilities upgrades, but also articles of research and development results written for technical or non-technical audiences. The publication commenced in 1925 with the founding of the laboratories.

A prominent journal for the focussed dissemination of original or reprinted scientific research by Bell Labs engineers and scientists was the ''[[Bell System Technical Journal]]'', started in 1922 by the AT&T Information Department. Bell researchers also published widely in industry journals.

Some of these articles were reprinted by the Bell System as Monographs, consecutively issued starting in 1920.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKcjAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA167 |title=Bell Telephone Monograph #1 |year=1920 |access-date=March 20, 2022 |archive-date=October 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017050005/https://books.google.com/books?id=fKcjAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA167#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live}}</ref> These reprints, numbering over 5000, comprise a catalog of Bell research over the decades. Research in the Monographs is aided by access to associated indexes,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2258253 |title=Index of monographs |via=Worldcat.org |oclc=2258253 |access-date=March 20, 2022}}</ref> for monographs 1–1199, 1200–2850 (1958), 2851–4050 (1962), and 4051–4650 (1964).

Essentially all of the landmark work done by Bell Labs is memorialized in one or more corresponding monographs. Examples include:
* Monograph 1598 – Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, 1948 (reprinted from BSTJ).
* Monograph 1659 – Bardeen and Brattain, Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action, 1949 (reprinted from BSTJ).
* Monograph 1757 – Hamming, Error Detecting and Error Correcting Codes, 1950 (reprinted from BSTJ).
* Monograph 3289 – Pierce, Transoceanic Communications by Means of Satellite, 1959 (reprinted from Proc. I.R.E.).
* Monograph 3345 – Schawlow & Townes, Infrared and Optical Masers, 1958 (reprinted from Physical Review).