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Phone Tones
Twenty Thousand Hertz
The Stroger Switch
In Kansas City, an undertaker wanted to stop his rival from stealing his business. He designed what would become known as the Stroger Switch; it didn't have a dial at the time. The phone company developed a new switching machine called the number four crossbar. This was the first time a keypad of numeric buttons was widely adopted.
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