Strawger, AB

Japanese: Strawger,A.B.(英語表記)StrawgerAB
Strawger, AB

…As telephones became more widespread and more common, there were demands for accurate and rapid connections, service at all times of the day and night, and confidentiality of communications, and the intervention of operators became a problem. In response to these demands, in 1889, a mechanical automatic telephone exchange was invented by A.B. Strawger (1847-1905), who was said to have been a funeral director at the time. This was the Strawger exchange, and in 1892 it began to be used commercially in the city of La Porte in northern Indiana. …

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Japanese:

…電話がしだいに普及し,一般化されていくにつれ,正確で迅速なる接続,昼夜の別なきサービス,通信の秘密保持の要求もでてくるようになり,交換手の介入が問題になってきた。このような要求にこたえて89年,当時葬儀屋を営んでいたといわれるストロージャーA.B.Strawger(1847‐1905)により機械式の自動電話交換機が発明された。これがストロージャー式交換機であり,92年にはインディアナ州北部のラ・ポルト市で商用化が開始されている。…

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