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How the Bell Labs Created the Modern World and Then Essentially Disappeared

Start
October 08, 2026
End
October 22, 2026
Schedule
3 sessions
#1.
October 08, 2026, 1:30 PM 3:30 PM (EDT)
#2.
October 15, 2026, 1:30 PM 3:30 PM (EDT)
#3.
October 22, 2026, 1:30 PM 3:30 PM (EDT)
Location
Online

Registration

6 x $2.50 online – $15.00

How the Bell Labs Created the Modern World and Then Essentially Disappeared

• Bob Holloran
• Thursday
• 10/8/26, 10/15/26, 10/22/26
• 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
• $15.00

The Bell Labs were the research arm of the Bell Telephone System and AT&T utile its the monopoly was broken up by a federal judge in 1984. Prior to the break up Bell Laboratories is regarded by many as the premier private research facility. It developed a wide range of revolutionary technologies. Eleven Nobel Prizes were awarded to Bell Lab employees for these developments, which formed the foundation of most of the technology of the modern world. We will learn why AT&T profited very little from the investments in creating them. But companies built on these foundations now have tens of trillions dollars of shareholder equity. Each week we will learn the history and people behind some of these foundational technologies and how the technologies evolved in the private sector to underly our daily lives.

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