-
-
Title
-
Almon Brown Strowger
-
Description
-
Photos, illustrations, and information on Almon Brown Strowger, or Almon Strowger (1839-1902), a telephone pioneer and inventor of "the step-by-step telephone switch, the basis for virtually every automatic phone system in the world," patented in 1891. Native of New York coming to Kansas City in 1886 as an undertaker, developing his telephone device and selling his company in 1898, with residence at 100 West 9th Street.
-
Object Type
-
Vertical File
-
-
Title
-
Almon Strowger
-
Description
-
Gravestone of Almon Strowger, inventor of the automatic telephone. Grave located in Greenwood Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Florida.
-
Object Type
-
Photograph
-
-
Title
-
The Industries of Kansas City: Historical, Descriptive and Statistical
-
Description
-
Description of the business of A. B. Strowger, "Undertaking and Embalming; 615 Wyandotte Street," established "in 1883, by H. W. Hallet & Co.," until "changed to its present firm-name, with A. B. Strowger [a native of New York coming to Kansas City in 1886] and Alice M. Strowger as members, in 1886."
-
Date
-
1888
-
Object Type
-
Book
