Promotional graphic for a Broadband Breakfast event titled “1876–1926: The Telephone and the Transatlantic Cable.” Large black text across the top sits over a stylized rural landscape with rolling green and yellow fields, distant hills, and wooden telephone poles carrying overhead wires. A large leafy tree stands at left. On the right side, a diagonal American flag motif frames a circular emblem with two white arrows pointing in opposite directions over a blue shape, symbolizing telecommunications exchange. Beneath the emblem, text reads “250 Years of American Independence & 150 Years of American Telecommunications.” The date “June 17, 2026” appears at the bottom right. The Broadband Breakfast logo appears in blue and gold at lower left.
11:29 am on June 17, 2026 · 2026 (252), Broadband Breakfast (5), history (5), telecom (19)

WEBINAR 17 JUN 16:00 UTC – 1876–1926: The Telephone and the Transatlantic Cable

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Promotional graphic for a Broadband Breakfast event titled “1876–1926: The Telephone and the Transatlantic Cable.” Large black text across the top sits over a stylized rural landscape with rolling green and yellow fields, distant hills, and wooden telephone poles carrying overhead wires. A large leafy tree stands at left. On the right side, a diagonal American flag motif frames a circular emblem with two white arrows pointing in opposite directions over a blue shape, symbolizing telecommunications exchange. Beneath the emblem, text reads “250 Years of American Independence & 150 Years of American Telecommunications.” The date “June 17, 2026” appears at the bottom right. The Broadband Breakfast logo appears in blue and gold at lower left.
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On Wednesday, 17 June 2026, at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC), Broadband Breakfast presents a webinar ‘1876–1926: The Telephone and the Transatlantic Cable‘.

This is the first session in a 3 part series that traces the 150-year arc of electronic communications development from Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone call on March 7, 1876, through today, and covers the half-century from Alexander Graham Bell’s patent and the founding of Bell Telephone through the rise of AT&T, the buildout of nationwide copper networks, and the completion of the first transcontinental telephone line in 1914. Submarine and overland cables connected commerce, government, and family life at unprecedented speed, laying the physical and regulatory groundwork for everything that followed.

SPEAKERS
Claude S. Fischer – Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Menahem Blondheim – Professor of Communication and History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Christopher Beauchamp – Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

HOST / MODERATOR
Drew Clark – CEO and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast

 

 

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