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Strowger system

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Strowger system [′strō·gər ‚sis·təm]
(communications)
An automatic telephone switching system that uses successive step-by-step selector switches actuated by current pulses produced by rotation of a telephone dial. Also known as step-by-step system.


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Marconi has on several occasions in recent times implied that they have been at the the old Strowger Works in Edge Lane since 1912 and made the old Strowger System.
Heralding the advent of the UK's digital phone system,it is widely recognised as the most significant development since the Strowger system.
``This is in sharp contrast with our existing System X exchanges, which require equipment the size of a tennis court to handle 50, 000 subscribers, and the old Strowger system, which needed an exchange the size of a football pitch.
 
 
 
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