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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 593,277 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Almon Brown Strowger is the 293rd most popular inventor (up from 304th in 2019), the 5,559th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,260th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Almon Brown Strowger ranks 293 out of 354. Before him are Peter Carl Goldmark, Ralph Hartley, Tabitha Babbitt, John Barnard, Walter Bruch, and Bernard Lown. After him are Kálmán Kandó, Joseph Bramah, Harry Ferguson, Henry M. Leland, Max Valier, and Henry J. Kaiser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Almon Brown Strowger ranks 66. Before him are Gustave Trouvé, Aleksandr Stoletov, Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Ludwig Anzengruber, and Luigi Pelloux. After him are Jakob Hurt, Nicolás de Piérola, Carl Humann, Ludwig Mond, Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, and Tage Reedtz-Thott. Among people deceased in 1902, Almon Brown Strowger ranks 55. Before him are Andrejs Pumpurs, Dmitry Sipyagin, Julia Grant, Bret Harte, Gustave Trouvé, and Antanas Baranauskas. After him are Frederick Abel, Hervé Faye, Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau, John Wesley Powell, John Houlding, and Gleb Uspensky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Almon Brown Strowger ranks 5,559 out of 18,182. Before him are Bradford Dillman (1930), Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737), Moe Berg (1902), Dorothy Arzner (1897), David Ellefson (1964), and Loretta Lynn (1932). After him are Alvin Ailey (1931), Lewis Powell (1844), Barbara Morgan (1951), Lee Meriwether (1935), Ancel Keys (1904), and Stan Kenton (1911).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Almon Brown Strowger ranks 73. Before him are L. L. Langstroth (1810), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Jack Northrop (1895), Wilson Greatbatch (1919), Ralph Hartley (1888), and Tabitha Babbitt (1779). After him are Henry M. Leland (1843), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Whitcomb L. Judson (1846), Lynn Conway (1938), George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859), and John Fitch (1743).

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