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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 exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired.
Learn about the inventor of the automatic telephone switching system, Almon Strowger, an undertaker from Kansas City, Missouri. His device revolutionized the telephone industry and controlled telephone networks worldwide for much of the twentieth century.
Learn how an undertaker in Kansas City invented the stepping exchange system and the rotary dial to compete with his rival in the 19th century. See his phone and other electrical inventions at SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention in Bellingham.
May 10, 2020 · Almon Brown Strowger was an American inventor who gave his name to the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired.
Oct 3, 2013 · Almon Brown Strowger, undertaker and inventor. Lived 1839 – 1902. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Advertisement. Strowger wasn’t the first to come up with the idea of an automatic telephone...
Almon Brown Strowger was a Kansas City undertaker who was tired of a rival undertaker’s wife, a switchboard operator, directing business calls to her husband alone. To fix the problem, Strowger...
Learn about the inventor of the automatic telephone exchange, Almon Brown Strowger, who was born in Penfield, New York. See his patent, his switch, and how it changed the world.
