''Bell Laboratories Record'' (BLR) was a publication of the ''Bureau of Publication'' of the

American Telephone and Telegraph Company AT&T Corporation, an abbreviation for its former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was an American telecommunications company that provided voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to busi ...

(AT&T) and

Bell Laboratories Nokia Bell Labs, commonly referred to as ''Bell Labs'', is an American industrial research and development company owned by Finnish technology company Nokia. With headquarters located in Murray Hill, New Jersey, the company operates several lab ...

. It commenced distribution as a

house organ A house organ (also variously known an in-house magazine, in-house publication, house journal, shop paper, plant paper, or employee magazine) is a magazine or periodical published by a company or organization for its customers, employees, union ...

for the employees and associates of the laboratories and the

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in September 1925, shortly after the founding of Bell Labs as a separate corporate entity. The first ''Director of Publication'' was John Mills, leading three managing and assisting editors, and an eleven-member editorial advisory board. The magazine reported personal, scientific, and organizational information, scholarly articles, and news of interest within the laboratories,

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, and AT&T. It included descriptions of technologies created at many Bell System locations for basic research, devices, technologies, systems, and

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relevant to telephone company, manufacturing, and government applications. It was slimmer and less scholarly than the '' Bell Labs Technical Journal''. On January 1, 1984 the publication was transferred to AT&T Technologies, and subsequently to

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. The successor title was ''Record—AT&T Bell Laboratories''.

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{{Reflist Business magazines published in the United States Bell System House organs Magazines established in 1925 Professional and trade magazines Telephony

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