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21.) telephone: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com
Over one day ago | Thu Jun 16 16:35:00 PDT 2005
Almon Strowger, an undertaker, invented the first automated telephone exchange in 1892 in Kansas City, and his switches were used until the 1970s. It was some years before the telephone became dependable and portable enough to be ...
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22.) The History of Communication
Over one day ago | Fri Feb 28 16:00:00 PST 2003
1926, Warner Brothers Studios invented a way to record sound separately from the film on large disks and synchronized the sound and motion picture tracks upon playback - an improvement on Thomas Edison's work. ...
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Over one day ago | Mon Jun 16 0:00:00 PDT 2008
The inventor, Almon Strowger, was an undertaker in Kansas City in the late 1800?s. The wife of his only competitor worked the switchboard at the local telephone exchange. Whenever a caller asked to be put through to Strowger, ...
From rezahajii
24.) SANS Technology Institute: Network Neutrality
Over one day ago | Mon Apr 16 17:00:00 PDT 2007
No, it goes back to an innovator, who was an undertaker in 1890 named Almon Strowger. "What really spurred him on was when he imagined that his undertaking business was missing out because the lady at the phone exchange was connecting ...
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25.) Andy Kessler: WSJ: Verizon Workerless
Over one day ago | Fri Dec 23 16:00:00 PST 2005
At the turn of the last century, an undertaker named Almon Strowger designed and patented an operator-killing automatic switch called ?Step by Step? when he discovered that his competitor?s wife was the local phone operator and was ...
From akessler
26.) Technological Obsolescence « Lingua Franca
Over one day ago | Fri Mar 7 0:00:00 PST 2008
Rotary Phone: In 1891, a St. Louis undertaker, Almon Strowger, came up with the forerunner to the modern rotary dial. In the 1970s, with the advent of touch-tone dialing, rotary phones began to fade away. ...
From Omar Upegui R.
27.) Voodoo-Doll-A-Day: Voodoo Doll #13 Found in St. Pete Cemetery?
Over one day ago | Sat May 24 0:00:00 PDT 2008
So is the body of Almon B. Strowger, inventor of the automatic telephone switch, who was interred in 1902. A local artist from New Orleans got wind of the dolls and insisted on seeing them, said Chris Kelly, a historical activist and ...
From Voodoo Mama
28.) Ezra Klein: Net Neutrality, Competition, and Pizza
Over one day ago | Mon Apr 2 11:32:00 PDT 2007
The story is that Almon Strowger, an undertaker, was upset that the operators were routing calls for an undertaker to his rivals, and so he invented the automatic telephone exchange. I don't know how true this is, but it makes sense. ...
From Ezra Klein
29.) Know some interesting unknows facts: The Complete List Of ...
Over one day ago | Sun Feb 4 13:45:00 PST 2007
Inventions are often invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, ...
From Tanmoy Sen Gupta
30.) march 10th: bells are ringin?
Over one day ago | Sat Mar 10 5:50:00 PST 2007
?well, the refrigerator hasn?t been invented yet. why would it be running?? ? march 10th, 1891: a topeka, kansas undertaker named almon strowger patents a early rotary dial phone device called the strowger switch, which lets users dial ...
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