In the late 1880s Almon Strowger\ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83d\udcbc was THE ONLY UNDERTAKER IN TOWN \ud83d\udc80, so he ran quite a profitable business \ud83d\ude4a. Suddenly he noticed his work had dropped off considerably \ud83d\udcc9 , and that there was a new undertaker in town \ud83d\ude33.
Curious as to why so many were going to this new undertaker instead of him \ud83e\udd14. Strowger found out it was because the TELEPHONE OPERATOR \u260e\ufe0f was married to this other undertaker\u203c\ufe0f When anyone called for Stowger’s business, she would direct them to her husband. (At that time when anyone placed a call they had to first call in an operator who would then connect them to their intended party). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, Strowger decided to invest on R&D \ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83d\udd2c. He worked to come up with an INVENTION that would allow callers TO CONTACT ONE ANOTHER DIRECTLY, without the need of a human intermediary \ud83d\ude20<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1892 Strowger patented his automatic telephone exchange and left the undertaking business to mass-produce his new invention. Strowger soldhis patents in 1896 for $1,800 and sold his share in the Automatic Electric Company for $10,000 in 1898. Hispatents subsequently sold for $2.5 million in 1916.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Strowager’s invention would be the common system used by telephone companies in the U.S. for many years to come. He allowed for a REVOLUTION in telephone technology, and ensured that never again WOULD AN OPERATOR “MISDIRECT” \ud83d\ude1c PEOPLE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the late 1880s Almon Strowger\ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83d\udcbc was THE ONLY UNDERTAKER IN TOWN \ud83d\udc80, so he ran quite a profitable business \ud83d\ude4a. Suddenly he noticed his work had dropped off considerably \ud83d\udcc9 , and that there was a new undertaker in town \ud83d\ude33. Curious as to why so many were going to this new undertaker instead of him \ud83e\udd14. Strowger found out it was because the TELEPHONE OPERATOR \u260e\ufe0f was married to this other undertaker\u203c\ufe0f When anyone called for Stowger’s business, she would direct them to her husband. (At that time when anyone placed a call they had to first call in an operator who would then connect them to their intended party). So, Strowger decided to invest on R&D \ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83d\udd2c. He worked to come up with an INVENTION that would allow callers TO CONTACT ONE ANOTHER DIRECTLY, without the need of a human intermediary \ud83d\ude20 In 1892 Strowger patented his automatic telephone exchange and left the undertaking business to mass-produce his new invention. Strowger soldhis patents in 1896 for $1,800 and sold his share in the Automatic Electric Company for $10,000 in 1898. Hispatents subsequently sold for $2.5 million in 1916. Strowager’s invention would be the common system used by telephone companies in the U.S. for many years to come. He allowed for a REVOLUTION in telephone technology, and ensured that never again WOULD AN OPERATOR “MISDIRECT” \ud83d\ude1c PEOPLE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-business","category-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}