![TIL the Strowger switch is the first automatic telephone exchange. Invented by Strowger, an undertaker after having difficulties with the local telephone operators-one of the manual telephone exchange operators was the wife of a competitor who was sending ... TIL the Strowger switch is the first automatic telephone exchange. Invented by Strowger, an undertaker after having difficulties with the local telephone operators-one of the manual telephone exchange operators was the wife of a competitor who was sending ...](https://external-preview.redd.it/NSA0VLEms4qKZLoHCbmaGwmVO-67KhrqiZPVbnSNC8U.jpg?auto=webp&s=73e6f1a1c0ed204455682b2817eccd42514e04b2)
TIL the Strowger switch is the first automatic telephone exchange. Invented by Strowger, an undertaker after having difficulties with the local telephone operators-one of the manual telephone exchange operators was the wife of a competitor who was sending ...
![Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898 | Science Museum Group Collection Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898 | Science Museum Group Collection](https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/44/336/medium_1926_1052__0001_.jpg)
Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898 | Science Museum Group Collection
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Almon B. Strowger: The undertaker who revolutionized telephone technology | SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention
![Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898 | Science Museum Group Collection Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898 | Science Museum Group Collection](https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/44/337/medium_1926_1052__0002_.jpg)