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  • Alexander Graham Bell and the New York City–Chicago telephone link In telephone: Rotary dialing

    The first automatic switching systems, based on the Strowger switch described in the section Electromechanical switching, were activated by a push button on the calling party’s telephone. More accurate call dialing was permitted by the advent of the rotary dial in 1896. A…

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