![Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898 | Science Museum Group Collection Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898 | Science Museum Group Collection](https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/44/336/medium_1926_1052__0001_.jpg)
Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898 | Science Museum Group Collection
![Strowger telephone central office switch...When telephone switches still made noise! Now days, they're just rout… | Telephone exchange, Telephone, Vintage telephone Strowger telephone central office switch...When telephone switches still made noise! Now days, they're just rout… | Telephone exchange, Telephone, Vintage telephone](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d7/e7/2c/d7e72c2bec085510ab75cfb9a2420808.jpg)
Strowger telephone central office switch...When telephone switches still made noise! Now days, they're just rout… | Telephone exchange, Telephone, Vintage telephone
![Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898 | Science Museum Group Collection Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898 | Science Museum Group Collection](https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/44/337/medium_1926_1052__0002_.jpg)
Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898 | Science Museum Group Collection
Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum, St. Louis, Mo. - Step-by-Step Central Office Switch The Strowger switch was the first commercially successful electromechanical stepping switch telephone exchange system. The device was invented by an
![TIL the Strowger switch is the first automatic telephone exchange. Invented by Strowger, an undertaker after having difficulties with the local telephone operators-one of the manual telephone exchange operators was the wife of a competitor who was sending ... TIL the Strowger switch is the first automatic telephone exchange. Invented by Strowger, an undertaker after having difficulties with the local telephone operators-one of the manual telephone exchange operators was the wife of a competitor who was sending ...](https://external-preview.redd.it/NSA0VLEms4qKZLoHCbmaGwmVO-67KhrqiZPVbnSNC8U.jpg?auto=webp&s=73e6f1a1c0ed204455682b2817eccd42514e04b2)