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    Almon Brown Strowger (February 11, 1839 – May 26, 1902) was an American inventor who gave his name to the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone...
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  • the company that manufactured Strowger switches Almon Brown Strowger (1839–1902), who invented the principle of the Strowger switch in 1888 Stroger (disambiguation)...
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    founded in 1891 by Almon Brown Strowger. Because of its operational characteristics, it is also known as a step-by-step (SXS) switch. Strowger, an undertaker...
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    connections. The electromechanical automatic telephone exchange, invented by Almon Strowger in 1888, gradually replaced manual switchboards in central telephone...
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    March 1891: Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch the first Automatic telephone exchange. 30 October 1891: The independent Strowger Automatic Telephone...
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  • umbrella of Lucent in the 1990s, and subsequently part of Nokia. In 1889, Almon Strowger, of Kansas City, Missouri, was inspired by the idea of manufacturing...
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  • General Almon Heath Read (1790–1844), American politician Almon Rennie (1882–1949), Canadian businessman and politician Almon Brown Strowger (1839–1902)...
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    that used manual switchboards for toll calls. On March 10, 1891, Almon Brown Strowger, an undertaker in Kansas City, Missouri, patented the stepping switch...
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup (born 1950), Denmark – C++ (programming language) Almon Strowger (1839–1902), U.S. – automatic telephone exchange Emil Strub (1858–1909)...
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  • Willard Gibbs (died 1903), American theoretical physicist and chemist. Almon Strowger (died 1902), American telecommunications engineer. February 15 – Hieronymus...
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    the automatic telephone exchange in the early 20th century. Inventor Almon Strowger had begun producing and selling automatic switches in the 1890s, but...
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  • of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell. 1891 – Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone...
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  • original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved January 5, 2020. "NIHF Inductee Almon Strowger and the Automatic Telephone Dialing System". www.invent.org. June 5...
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    telephone subscribers. The first patent for a rotary dial was granted to Almon Brown Strowger on November 29, 1892, but the commonly known form with holes in the...
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  • Greenwood Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Florida, where the memory marker of Almon Strowger, an undertaker who changed the face of communications technology with...
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  • dermatologist. April 12 – Alfred Cornu (born 1841), French physicist May 26 – Almon Strowger (born 1839), American telecommunications engineer. September 5 – Rudolf...
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    The first commercial automatic telephone exchange, designed by Almon Brown Strowger, opened in La Porte, Indiana on 3 November 1892, and used two telegraph-type...
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  • operated simultaneously. In other types, such as the Strowger switch, invented by Almon Brown Strowger in 1888, mechanical switching occurs in two directions...
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  • 12 – Almon B. Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, files a patent in the United States for an automatic telephone exchange using the Strowger switch...
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    Stepanovich Popov Tivadar Puskás Johann Philipp Reis Claude Shannon Almon Brown Strowger Henry Sutton Charles Sumner Tainter Nikola Tesla Camille Tissot Alfred...
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  • OMNI-S3 Digital PABX Strowger Automatic Toll Ticketing (SATT); relay and type 45 rotary switch mechanics Strowger Step-by-Step (Strowger patents were exclusively...
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  • Stepanovich Popov Tivadar Puskás Johann Philipp Reis Claude Shannon Almon Brown Strowger Henry Sutton Charles Sumner Tainter Nikola Tesla Camille Tissot Alfred...
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    spread to the rest of the world, replacing most earlier designs like the Strowger (step-by-step) and Panel systems in larger installations in the U.S. Graduating...
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  • Stepanovich Popov Tivadar Puskás Johann Philipp Reis Claude Shannon Almon Brown Strowger Henry Sutton Charles Sumner Tainter Nikola Tesla Camille Tissot Alfred...
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  • Stepanovich Popov Tivadar Puskás Johann Philipp Reis Claude Shannon Almon Brown Strowger Henry Sutton Charles Sumner Tainter Nikola Tesla Camille Tissot Alfred...
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  • Stepanovich Popov Tivadar Puskás Johann Philipp Reis Claude Shannon Almon Brown Strowger Henry Sutton Charles Sumner Tainter Nikola Tesla Camille Tissot Alfred...
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  • Stepanovich Popov Tivadar Puskás Johann Philipp Reis Claude Shannon Almon Brown Strowger Henry Sutton Charles Sumner Tainter Nikola Tesla Camille Tissot Alfred...
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  • Almon B. Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, is granted a patent in the United States for an automatic telephone exchange using the Strowger switch...
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  • Stepanovich Popov Tivadar Puskás Johann Philipp Reis Claude Shannon Almon Brown Strowger Henry Sutton Charles Sumner Tainter Nikola Tesla Camille Tissot Alfred...
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