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Almon Brown Strowger

1839 - 1902

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Almon Brown Strowger has received more than 623,639 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Almon Brown Strowger is the 356th most popular inventor (down from 293rd in 2019), the 7,870th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,547th in 2019) and the 94th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Almon Brown Strowger ranks 356 out of 426. Before him are Charles Darrow, Robert Whitehead, Jerry Lawson, Frank J. Sprague, Edward Craven Walker, and Peter Madsen. After him are Kazimierz Prószyński, František Křižík, George Stibitz, John Milne, Elizabeth Holmes, and Isaac Pitman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Almon Brown Strowger ranks 84. Before him are Julius Wilbrand, Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Tage Reedtz-Thott, August W. Eichler, Nicolaas Pierson, and Ignacio Andrade. After him are William T. Anderson, Casimiro de Abreu, Ivan Kuratov, John Aitken, Julius von Hann, and Frances Willard. Among people deceased in 1902, Almon Brown Strowger ranks 75. Before him are Richard Leach Maddox, Johannes Wislicenus, Emil Holub, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Frank Norris, and Walter Reed. After him are Franz Sigel, Lőrinc Schlauch, Juan Bautista Egusquiza, Hans von Pechmann, William McGonagall, and Ludwig von Brenner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Almon Brown Strowger ranks 7,870 out of 20,380. Before him are Jamie Kennedy (1970), Warren Frost (1925), Oliver Macdonald (1904), Fischer Black (1938), Randy Jones (1952), and Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901). After him are Jeanna Fine (1964), Marcia Neugebauer (1932), Arthur Hohl (1889), Edward Kienholz (1927), Robert Cray (1953), and Bill Smith (1924).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Almon Brown Strowger ranks 94. Before him are Joy Mangano (1956), John Fitch (1743), Oliver Evans (1755), Charles Darrow (1889), Jerry Lawson (1940), and Frank J. Sprague (1857). After him are George Stibitz (1904), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Amar Bose (1929), Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), and Frank Piasecki (1919).

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