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31.) Schneier on Security: Call Forwarding Credit Card Scam
Over one day ago | Mon Aug 21 14:58:00 PDT 2006
The story is that Almon Strowger owned a funeral parlor in a town where his competitor's wife was the local telephone operator. When someone rang the operator and said "Please connect me to the funeral parlor" she'd connect them to her ...
From schneier
32.) ELT: Seminar Presentation
Over one day ago | Wed Dec 19 22:09:00 PST 2007
1889 Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone or automatic telephone exchange. 1894 Guglielmo Marconi improves wireless telegraphy. 1899 Valdemar Poulsen invents the first magnetic recordings - using magnetized steel tape as ...
From Hasan OZKAN
33.) some facts about 10 march
Over one day ago | Mon Mar 10 8:02:00 PDT 2008
1880 - members of the salvation army land in the united states and begin operations 1891 - almon strowger, an undertaker in topeka, kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching ...
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34.) On this day in History - Mar. 10
Over one day ago | Fri Mar 9 17:34:00 PST 2007
1891 - Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching. 1891 - Sam Jaffe was born (d. 1984). Actor. 1892 - Arthur Honegger was born in Le ...
From looking4good
35.) List of inventors: List of inventors
Over one day ago | Tue Apr 29 0:00:00 PDT 2008
Almon Strowger, (1839-1902), USA ? automatic telephone exchange Su Song, (1020-1101), China, first chain drive Simon Sunatori, (1959-), Canada ? inventor of Sunatori Pen Joseph Swan, (1828-1914), England ? Incandescent light bulb ...
From billionnaires
36.) Switching
Over one day ago | Mon Mar 19 20:04:00 PDT 2007
In fact, a surprising little story is associated with the invention of automatic circuit switching equipment. It was invented by a 19th century Missouri undertaker named Almon B. Strowger. Shortly after the telephone was invented, ...
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37.) today in history....march 10
Over one day ago | Mon Mar 10 0:36:00 PDT 2008
1891, almon strowger, an undertaker in topeka, kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching * 1902, a united states court of appeals rules that thomas edison did not invent the ...
From Joe Gringo
38.) when funeral directors think?
Over one day ago | Sun Sep 30 11:58:00 PDT 2007
they say that necessity is the mother of invention. never has this been more beautifully executed than by one almon brown strowger, who patented the automatic telephone exchange in 1891. strowger was, by trade, an undertaker and a ...
From editor
39.) Telephone Books - Yellow Pages - 911 - Pay Phones
Over one day ago | Sun Mar 31 16:00:00 PST 2002
Almon Strowger was issued a patent on March 11, 1891 for the first automatic telephone exchange. Telephone Books The first telephone book was published in New Haven, by the New Haven District Telephone Company in February 1878. ...
From inventors.guide@about.com
40.) Share the Air: A Capital Idea - Wall Street Wired - Andy Kessler ...
Over one day ago | Fri Sep 14 16:21:00 PDT 2007
This is not the internet. We?re talking about thousands of companies each independently using radio waves. Are we going to send each an email to cut back on their power output? ? Posted by Almon Strowger ...
From Andy Kessler
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