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Strowger Teleph.|ˈstraʊgə(r)|
The name of Almon B. Strowger, U.S. telephone engineer, used attrib. with reference to an exchange switching system proposed by him in 1891 (U.S. Patent 447,918), involving successive step-by-step switches.
1900K. B. Miller Amer. Telephone Pract. (ed. 3) xxxiv. 459 The most important idea..in all of the Strowger automatic work, was that of simplifying the contacts for the different line wires. 1901J. E. Homans ABC of Telephone xx. 268 A Strowger exchange in Atlanta, Ga., has as many as 500 subscribers. 1933K. B. Miller Telephone Theory & Pract.: Automatic Switching iii. 22 Of the three general types of automatic or machine-switching systems, ‘step-by-step’, ‘power-driven’, and ‘all-relay’, the former, also called the ‘Strowger system’, will be treated in this chapter. 1967Times Rev. Industry July 19/1 There are three types of telephone exchange in use; one is the Strowger which has been the standard British equipment ever since we introduced the automatic exchange. 1973Nature 16 Feb. 416/1 The antiquated Strowger step-by-step switching on which Britain's telephones deplorably now depend. |