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crossbar switching system
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development of telephone systems
- In telephone: Electromechanical switching
The first crossbar system was demonstrated by Televerket, the Swedish government-owned telephone company, in 1919. The first commercially successful system, however, was the AT&T No. 1 crossbar system, first installed in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1938. A series of improved versions followed the No. 1 crossbar system, the…
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