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Strowger

The word Strowger when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language.

The term "Strowger", when used by itself can refer to:

  1. Automatic telephone exchange equipment manufactured by the Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange Company[?]
  2. Electromechanical or Step by Step (SxS) Automatic telephone exchange equipment using the principles initially suggested by Almon (Brown) Strowger.

"Strowger" is also a part of the name of:

  1. Almon (Brown) Strowger, whose patents of 1891 were used for the first commercial installation of an automatic telephone exchange in 1892.
  2. A BRT Locomotive[?] named Almon B Strowger[?] after the inventor of the automatic telephone exchange.

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