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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.
Almon Strowger, an undertaker from Kansas City, Missouri, invented a mechanism that revolutionized the telephone industry and controlled telephone networks worldwide for much of the twentieth century.
Almon B. Strowger: The undertaker who revolutionized telephone technology. Truly, necessity is the mother of invention. Imagine you’re an undertaker working in Kansas City in the late 19th century.
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...
Penfield native Almon Strowger was working as an undertaker in Kansas in the late 1880s. Convinced the local telephone operator who was the wife of a competitor was diverting his calls, Strowger set out to create a means of bypassing the operator....and in 1891 he patented "the automatic telephone exchange".
Almon Brown Strowger - Inventor of the Modern Day Telephone
