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Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898 | Science Museum Group Collection
Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum, St. Louis, Mo. - Step-by-Step Central Office Switch The Strowger switch was the first commercially successful electromechanical stepping switch telephone exchange system. The device was invented by an
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