It was the first generation of an automated telephone exchange used for routing calls from one line to another. Strowger was the first to implement electromechanical switches which removed the need for an operator to manually connect the telephone lines together.
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Almon Brown Strowger was born on 1839-02-11.
Almon Brown Strowger died on 1902-05-26.
American Almon B. Strowger patented the first automatic switchboard
The advantage of the strowger switch is that customers could switch lines easily and efficiently. However the early models were not scalable in terms of the number of customers it could support.
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The famous Strowger electromechanical switches, first the 2000-type in the 1930s and the 4000-type in the 1960s, were the basis of telephone exchanges. However they were slow, working in real time with 0.1-second pulses from the subscriber's dial, and consumed a lot of power, plus they needed a lot of maintenance. One exchange I worked in had about 80,000 lines and used about 100 kW of power at 50 volts in the morning busy-hour. And all exchanges had to have a battery to keep them going for 24 hours in an emergency. A 10,000-line exchange can't be explained in ten lines with such a wide variation in readers' prior knowledge.
In 1891, American Almon B. Strowger patented the first automatic switchboard
La Porte, Indiana, November 3rd 1892.The equipment was a Strowger, electromechanical system. Invented by Almon Brown Strowger.His day job was an undertaker, but also inventor. Fed up with loosing trade to competitors, because of interception by human telephone operators, he devised and patented the first automatic system.It worked by sending pulses down the phone line, which moved a mechanical switch at the exchange, selecting one of up to 99 lines. later designs involved the rotary dial, to produce the pulses.
step by step switch (also called strowger after its inventor) uses step relays capable of assuming ten separate levels,representing a decimal digit.
Never heard of aqua dag, however oil dag was a common term in the 60s for a heavy dark oil used to lubricate electro-mechanical equipment in Strowger telephone exchanges.
The prefix of the word exchange is ex.
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