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AUTOMATED TELEPHONYAUTO is short for automatic. Almon Strowger, an undertaker from Kansas (USA),
invented a basic electromechanical exchange for automatically switching telephone calls. He did this because he thought that his rivals wife, who worked on the towns manual
telephone exchange, was diverting his calls to her husband. Strowgers system automatically
routed calls without the assistance of an operator. The telephone instrument has to have a
dial with automated systems and the systems known as `Strowger' exchanges.
The UK still used step-by-step Strowger systems unit 1990. The BPO introduced Crossbar and Electronic exchanges in the late 1960's - early 1970's and
these were superseded by System X and System Y (both digital). GPO Exchange Codes
Operating Outgoing Calls A calling subscriber gains access to the automatic equipment at the exchange by lifting the receiver and dialling as directed by the instruction card. When the receiver is lifted from the telephone gravity switch, the gravity switch rises and the A and B wires of the exchange circuit are looped through the subscriber's induction coil primary winding and transmitter, in parallel with the bell and condenser which are connected permanently across the A and B wires of the circuit. The loop offers a continuous circuit to the central battery at the exchange in consequence of which current flows .round the loop, passing en route through apparatus at the exchange, the operation of which places the switching apparatus at the subscriber's disposal for obtaining a required connexion by the operation of his dial. Assuming the called subscriber's line to be disengaged and that communication is established, the two subscribers are forthwith enabled to converse in virtue of the speaking circuit arrangements which, so far as the calling subscriber is concerned, depend on the continued flow of current from the central battery through the exchange switching apparatus and round the subscriber's loop via his transmitter. On the termination of a call, the depression of the telephone gravity switch, by the replacement of the subscriber's receiver on the gravity switch, removes the loop connecting the A and B wires and restores the normal connexion between them via the bell and condenser. The current previously supplied to the circuit by the central battery at the exchange consequently ceases to flow and normal conditions are restored at the exchange by the release of the switching apparatus.
The the exchange rings the subscriber by generator and the rings are received on the magneto bell associated with the subscriber's telephone set. In response, the subscriber lifts the receiver from the telephone gravity switch, thus completing the speaking circuit, replies and at the conclusion of conversation, signals the termination of the call to the exchange by replacing the handset on the gravity switch hook, the functions performed by the subscriber's apparatus at each stage being the same as those performed m connexion with an outgoing call.
History of the Automatic Telephone System Try the visit to a PABX 3 page - it's all Strowger, although only a customer system.
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Last revised: December 07, 2022FM |