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American businessman from Kansas City, Missouri Almon Stroudzher first patented the automatic telephone exchange, which he deserved the title "father of all ATS.But his reasons to create his invention, just curious.And it is quite worthy of the epithet of the following: "If the philosopher could become an undertaker, then why not become a critic of the undertaker?".Stroudzher was ... undertaker.
And business in the city of Kansas City has flourished, but exactly as long as long as the wife of one of the main competitors did not work for a telephone switchboard at the local station.Employment of women in glory.Since her employment cases Stroudzhera fell into decay.And no wonder, because each client is in need of funeral services, through the efforts of young ladies passed the number hapless Stroudzhera, getting straight to the calculating wife telephonists.But Almon Stroudzher not lowered his hands, and save your own business, was the inventor of the tetragonal seeker, precluding the need for the operator to establish a connection with a particular subscriber.
ATS Stroudzhera, which came into effect in 1892, became known as "phone with the young ladies and curses.By the way, is still a significant part of the park-wide telephone network in major cities of our country are notorious automatic telephone service tetragonal type.
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