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Strowger Telecommunications History and Technology Site

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Audience/Grade: College Freshman - Continuing Education
Discipline(s): Electrical Engineering
Special Topic(s): History of Technology
Learning Resource Type: Reference - General
Media Type:

 WWW
Author(s): Strowger Telecomms Page
Description: Site has the history of Stowger's impact on telecommunications, along with images, glossary and related links. Topics include: 1. Manual Telephone Switching 2. Automatic Telephone Switching 3. Numbering Schemes 4. Automatic Exchanges 5. Michael's Working Strowger Unit 6. Recordings of Strowger Sounds ."Until the 1990's, much of the telecomms infrastructre of the UK still relied on electromechanical switching, based on principles invented by Almon B. Strowger. Old Strowger exchanges were something to see, touch and hear - nowadays, modern exchanges are just anonymous silent blue cabinets."
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Keywords: history of technology, telecommunications history, telephone exchange
   
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Use of Resource: general reference
Difficulty: Easy
Interactivity Level: Very Low

   
Version Info
Publication Date: November 1998
Platform/Format: WWW
Cost: Free
Download URL: http://www.seg.co.uk/telecomm/
Metadata: IEEE LOM Record
Collection: NEEDS NEEDS