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Almon Strowger
Automatic switching and dialing inventor
Almon Brown Strowger (; February 11, 1839 – May 26, 1902) was an American inventor for whom the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology, is named.
Strowger was born in Penfield, New York, near Rochester, the grandson of the second settler and first miller in Penfield. Little is known about his early life. It is said that if his mother gave her children a task, Strowger and his brothers would often try to devise a machine to do the task for them. He taught school in Penfield for a time.
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