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Marking American Ingenuity

This iconic landmark, designed to resemble a transistor, is the water tower at the former Bell Labs in Holmdel.  The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) began constructing the research laboratory in 1959.  It is one of the final projects of architect Eero Saarinen.

Corporate researchers invented cell phones and radio astronomy here along with other Nobel Prize winning discoveries.  The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. It is now a privately owned mixed use office space known as Bell Works.