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May 26, 1902. (1902-05-26) (aged 63) St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. Occupation. Inventor. Spouse. Susan Strowger. 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.
A rotary dial is a component of a telephone or a telephone switchboard that implements a signaling technology in telecommunications known as pulse dialing. It is used when initiating a telephone call to transmit the destination telephone number to a telephone exchange . On the rotary dial, the digits are arranged in a circular layout, with one ...
Ericofon. The Ericofon is a one-piece plastic telephone created by the Ericsson Company of Sweden and marketed through the second half of the 20th century. It was the first commercially marketed telephone to incorporate the dial and handset into a single unit. Because of its styling and its influence on future telephone design, the Ericofon is ...
Reginald Fessenden. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian-born American inventor who received hundreds of patents in various fields, most notably ones related to radio and sonar . Fessenden is best known for his pioneering work developing radio technology, including the foundations of amplitude modulation ...
11 February 1876: Elisha Gray invents a liquid transmitter for use with a telephone, but he did not make one. 14 February 1876 about 9:30 am: Gray or his lawyer brings Gray's patent caveat for the telephone to the Washington, D.C. Patent Office (a caveat was a notice of intention to file a patent application.
Bank of two-motion switches. The Strowger switch is the first commercially successful electromechanical stepping switch telephone exchange system. It was developed by the Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange Company founded in 1891 by Almon Brown Strowger. Because of its operational characteristics, it is also known as a step-by-step ( SXS ...
Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois. Tivadar Puskás proposed the telephone switchboard exchange in 1876. Thomas Edison invented the carbon microphone which produced a strong telephone ...
Bryant Pond was the last town in the U.S. to give up on hand-crank telephones, and in 2008 they decided to build a huge freakin' monument to celebrate it. The thing's 14 feet tall and weighs 3,000 pounds; it's hard to miss, especially since there's not much else of note around it.