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To: wooden ships who wrote (6110)	7/20/1998 10:09:00 AM
From: Wally Mastroly	Respond to of 42834

Tulipmania.com - biz.yahoo.com An update on the old tulip-mania story.

To: wooden ships who wrote (6110)	7/20/1998 10:54:00 PM
From: wooden ships	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

Parenthetically, as the Lucent Corporation (parent to old Bell Labs) hits all time highs at prices near $102 per share, Brinker, who has for a long while publicly favored the spun-off Lucent over its crest-fallen parent AT&T, noted Sunday, as an aside, his own cost basis of $13 for the company which invented the transistor and started this semiconductor revolution. Not too shabby a return on investment, Mr. Brinker. From the Bell Labs' webpage is extracted this historical precis of an extraordinary company: (Bell Labs) is the birthplace of the transistor, laser, solar cell, light-emitting diode, digital switching, communications satellite, electrical digital computer, cellular mobile radio, long-distance TV transmission, artificial larynx, sound motion pictures, and stereo recording as well as many major contributions to the telecommunications network. It has received more than 26,000 patents, averaging one per day since its founding in 1925. Seven Bell Labs scientists have received the Nobel Prize in Physics... The amazing achievements of Bell Labs are doubtless an astonishing testimony to the inventive genius of the American mind, Art Bell's speculation that Bell Labs is the beneficial recipient of extra- terrestrial technology, notwithstanding.