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	Almon Strowger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Strowger was a man of some wealth at his death and was reported as owning at least a city block of property.
		Strowger sold his patents in 1896 for $1,800 and sold his share in the Automatic Electric Company for $10,000 in 1898.
		Strowger was admitted to the hall of fame of the U.S. Independent Telephone Association in 1965.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Almon_Strowger (1268 words)

	Textra Technology Limited
		Strowger invented an automatic exchange allowing connections between telephone lines to be made electromechanically without requiring a plug board.
		Strowger was convinced that the local manual telephone exchange operators were sending calls to his competitor rather than his business and was so motivated to invent an automatic system.
		Strowger’s design consisted of a device to create a train of electrical pulses corresponding to each digit (this evolved into the rotary dial telephone).
	www.textratech.com /TechHistoryStrowger.htm (280 words)

	Southpinellas: Newfound fame good news for cemetery
		Marking Strowger's grave in Greenwood Cemetery is a simple, white stone of the kind often used to note the last resting place of Civil War soldiers.
		Strowger sold his patents for $1,800 in 1896 and his share in the Automatic Electric Co. for $10,000 in 1898, according to Lesher.
		Strowger and his wife moved to St. Petersburg and bought a house on Second Avenue N near the site of the Florida International Museum.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/09/11/news_pf/SouthPinellas/Newfound_fame_good_ne.shtml (721 words)

	Almon Strowger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Almon (Brown) Strowger (1839 - May 26, 1902) gave his name to the electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired.
		After her death in Tampa, Florida on April 14, 1921 her obituary appeared in the St Petersburg Times, claiming she had additional "revolutionary" Strowger designs, but she had refused to make them public while she was alive because only others would profit from her husband's designs.
		Strowger was quoted as saying: "No longer will my competitor steal all my business just because his wife is a BELL operator" (c) 1890:
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/a/al/almon_strowger.html (1143 words)

	The Edge Lane story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Strowger means several things to people: to the public at large he is remembered at the man who invented the automatic telephone to avoid losing business to a rival; to telephone engineers world-wide his name denotes a type of switching mechanism which even a hundred years after its invention is still used in most countries.
		Strowger gave his name not only to a telephone switching system but also to a group of companies, the most famous of which for most of its existence has been based in Chicago and was known as Automatic Electric (now GTE Automatic Electric, a major subsidiary of General Telephone and Electric).
		The Strowger equipment that was the mainstay of manufacturing at Edge Lane and elsewhere had been honed to a high degree of perfection but it no longer represented the state of the art, as it had done on 1936.
	www.sigtel.com /tel_hist_edgelane.html (13588 words)

	Strowger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The word Strowger when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language.
		The term "Strowger", when used by itself can refer to: \n#Automatic telephone exchange equipment manufactured by the Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange Company\n#Electromechanical or Step by Step (SxS) Automatic telephone exchange equipment using the principles initially suggested by Almon (Brown) Strowger.
		"Strowger" is also a part of the name of: \n#Almon (Brown) Strowger, whose patents of 1891 were used for the first commercial installation of an automatic telephone exchange in 1892.\n#A BRT Locomotive named Almon B Strowger after the inventor of the automatic telephone exchange.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/s/st/strowger.html (132 words)

	Connected Earth: Almon Brown Strowger(1839-1902) : operator - get off the line!
		Almon Strowger was an undertaker who created the first automatic telephone switching machine.
		Strowger was an irritable and eccentric man who moved to Kansas from New York State.
		Having been helped by several technicians (whom it is alleged he later swindled), in 1891 Strowger patented his automatic switching system, which cut out the need for a human operator.
	www.connected-earth.com /Galleries/Pioneersandpersonalities/S/Strowger (194 words)

	Almon Strowger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Almon Brown Strowger (1839 – May 26, 1902) gave his name to the electromechanical telephone exchange (telephone exchange: A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication) technology that his invention and patent (patent: An official document granting a right or privilege) inspired.
		Strowger sold his patents in 1896 for $1,800 and sold his share in the Automatic Electric Company (Automatic Electric Company: automatic electric company was a telephone equipment supplier for independent phone companies...
		Apart from his invention, his name has also been given to a locomotive (locomotive: A wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks) and a company business award.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/almon_strowger (1479 words)

	History of the Telephone : galaxyphones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Almon Brown Strowger (pronounced STRO-jer) was born in 1839 in Penfield, New York, a close suburb of Rochester.
		Strowger contended that an operator at the new telephone exchange had intentionally directed the call to a competitor -- an allegation that gave rise to tales that the operator was either married to, or the daughter of, a competing undertaker."
		So Strowger was working on the problem for quite some time and was no novice to telephone theory.
	www.ebuylondon.co.uk /telephone_history05.asp (2994 words)

	The Impact of Emerging Technologies: No Operator, Please - Technology Review
		The details are in dispute, but most historians agree that Almon Strowger was spurred into action by his suspicion that callers who asked for his mortuary were being connected to his competitors.
		Strowger equipment, such as the 1905 dial phone, at right, was manufactured by the newly formed Automatic Electric Company.
		Strowger retired to Florida six years after he opened his first exchange, selling his patents for $1,800 and his stake in the company for $10,000.
	www.techreview.com /articles/00/01/trailing0100.asp (481 words)

	Strowger - Switching Concepts
		Almon B. Strowger was an undertaker in Kansas City, USA.
		Strowger did not invent the idea of automatic switching; it was first invented in 1879 by Connolly & McTigthe but Strowger was the first to put it to effective use.
		In the late 1890's Almon B. Strowger retired and eventually died in 1902.
	www.seg.co.uk /telecomm/automat1.htm (1293 words)

	T1 Rex's Business Telecom Explainer: Telephone's Undertaker
		Almon Strowger soon figured out why his once booming business was withering.
		Live phone calls looked to be more lucrative than the dearly departed, so Almon Strowger enlisted the help of his nephew William to form a telephone equipment company and open the first automatic exchange in La Porte, Indiana in November of 1892.
		Strowger's push button phone was soon replaced by a rotary dial until it, too, was replaced by buttons again when DTMF (Dual Tone Multi-Frequency) or touchtones were introduced to support electronic switching systems.
	t1rex.blogspot.com /2005/03/telephones-undertaker.html (673 words)

	Strowger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Electromechanical or Step by Step (SxS) Automatic telephone exchange equipment using the principles initially suggested by Almon (Brown) Strowger.
		Almon (Brown) Strowger, whose patents of 1891 were used for the first commercial installation of an automatic telephone exchange in 1892.
		A BRT Locomotive named Almon B Strowger after the inventor of the automatic telephone exchange.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strowger (167 words)

	Telstra ClassRoom - The Story of Telephone Exchanges - Section 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Strowger's transition to technological inventor is explained by a story which may well be apocryphal.
		Strowger's idea was to install a cylinder like this at the telephone exchange.
		Strowger's solution was to make all selectors (other than the first) available to every line.
	www.telstra.com.au /classroom/sec_3_2.htm (1135 words)

	THG-Strowger
		Strowger is an electromechanical telephone switching system, known by the name Strowger in Britain and some English-speaking territories, and as 'step' or Step-by-Step (SxS) in North America.
		Almon Brown Strowger is the man credited with inventing this system in the late 19th century.
		Strowger is heavy; most telephone exchanges had specially reinforced floors to carry the fantastic load of rack upon rack crammed with relays sets and selectors fitted in wherever space allowed.
	www.thg.org.uk /strowger (485 words)

	Just the Arti-FACTS - For the House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Almon B. Strowger was a Kansas City, Missouri, mortician who had a running feud with that city's central switchboard telephone operators.
		Strowger's invention came to the attention of Joseph Harris, a salesman traveling out of Chicago looking for novel ideas for the World's Columbian Exposition.
		Harris induced Strowger to come to Chicago and the Auto Electric Company was formed in 1891.
	www.chicagohs.org /AOTM/mar99/mar99fact1.html (172 words)

	Switches, Switchboards, and Central Offices
		Strowger was an undertaker in Kansas City and in 1891, irritated beyond endurance because he thought he was being given wrong numbers by central office operators, he decided to take the matter in hand and do something about it.
		Strowger moved into telephony from the undertaking business because, as the near-legend has it, he was convinced that some local telephone operators, their power over him having cone to their heads, were deliberately giving wrong numbers and busy signal reports to his customers in order to drive him out of business.
		Strowger’s dial system was the first in operation, but the Bell companies, too late to be considered truly innovative -- a shortcoming which too often typified the Bell companies between 1887 and 1907 -- took over the idea and improved it vastly.
	www.telephonetribute.com /switches.html (3149 words)

	Strowger - Manufacturer Representatives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Almon Strowger was an undertaker in Kansas City in the late 1800’s.
		Strowger filed his patent application on March 12, 1889, and it was issued on March 10,1891 as patent No.
		When his system made its debut, Almon Strowger bragged that his exchanges were "girl-less, cuss-less, out-of-order-less, and wait-less." It required users to tap out the number they wanted on three keys to call other users directly.
	www.strowger.com /history.html (408 words)

	PPC modem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Almon B. Strowger wrote: = Hi, = = Well then you have your own answer regarding = a typical PC modem.
		Almon B. Strowger KOOK Pocket Software P.S. By the way...Did you have a specific application in mind, or is it just the general idea of sending data over the voice channel to save money?
		Almon B. Strowger wrote: = Hi, = = So, to avoid digital charges, and since AMPS is going extinct, = you want to see if an old-style 300 baud modem will work = with the various vocoder schemes?
	www.thebizarchive.com /new-3019257-76.html (10312 words)

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	Stepping switch - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In electrical controls, a stepping switch (also called a uniselector; see Strowger switch, below) is an electromechanical device used, most prominently, in early automatic telephone exchanges to route calls.
		Slightly more complicated was the two axis stepping switch (Strowger switch) which had two stepping coils, one to rotate the wiper and one to raise it up to successive banks of contacts.
		Stepping switches were invented by Almon Strowger in 1888.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Stepping_switch (598 words)

	Strowger's Invention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Strowger Award is named for Almon Strowger, a Kansas City undertaker in the 1890s who suspected telephone operators were diverting incoming calls to his competitors.
		Strowger developed an automated switchboard that could bypass human operators.
		He was issued a patent on March 11, 1891 for the first automatic telephone exchange.
	www.mcclureschool.info /strowger/invention.htm (51 words)

	Telephones Past and Present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Both the Strowger series telephones and the Sony PCS cell phone were created for a common purpose: to make money.
		If the supposed inspiration for Almon Strowger's invention is true, it adds another page to the immediate culture around this object.
		The Strowger series telephones was designed to be the newest and most innovative break for the normal Bell Company machinery.
	members.aol.com /serogi/museum/Analysis.html (336 words)

	VeriSign: Vision so good, it's scary - TechUpdate - ZDNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Strowger was an undertaker who fell prey to a competitor that bribed a Lily Tomlin-like switchboard operator to reroute the calls intended for Strowger's company to the competitor.
		Strowger learned the hard way that the manually switched infrastructure couldn't be trusted.
		In a world where physical circuits are giving way to digital networks that rely on the successful routing of packets instead of radio signals, that same sort of trust lives at the heart of VeriSign's mission.
	techupdate.zdnet.com /techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2879127,00.html (1270 words)

	Strowger - TheBestLinks.com - Automatic telephone exchange, English language, 1892, 1891, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	www.thebestlinks.com /Strowger.html (209 words)

	Privateline.com The Old Newsletters
		Almon Brown Strowger (pronounced STRO-jer) was born in 1839 in Penfield, New York, just outside Rochester.
		Swihart says he went to an excellent New York State university, served in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865, taught school in Kansas and Ohio afterwards, and wound up first in Topeka and then Kansas City as an undertaker in 1886.
		The many stories suggest, none of which I can confirm, that someone was stealing Almon Strowger's business and that he sought to do something about it.
	www.privateline.com /Newsletters/PLNews1.htm (2115 words)

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		Strowger developed a system of automatic switching using an electromechanical switch based around electromagnets and pawls.
		As mentioned previously, manual switching required an operator for every call and thus was expensive on manpower, however, when first developed, automatic switching systems were comparatively expensive and in the Post-war period (1914 onwards) female labor was cheap, so the advantages of moving to an automatic system were not great.
		In the foreground of the photo are the lead acid batteries; all Strowger exchanges had battery power supplies to protect them in the event of a power cut.
	www.atl.devry.edu /jgriffin/ECT215/handouts/telephone/strowger.doc (1966 words)

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