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What is Strowger Exchange?

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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.


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