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In the story of the development of automatic rotary dial telephone systems, the early inventors of electromechanical exchanges played a pivotal role in shaping its direction. 

Of course, Alexander Graham Bell is credited for inventing the telephone in 1876. Yet, it was the collective efforts of visionaries like A .B. Strowger (1891), who introduced the first practical and commercial dial-operated switch.  And Alexander Keith, who improved Strowger’s design (1895), invented the first practical rotary dial (1898) and line concentrator switch (1905). These men and many others truly revolutionized local telephone interconnectivity leading to operator-free long-distance  calling. 

In the early years, Thomas Edison, Romaine Callender, Lorimar brothers, Erickson brothers, F. McBerty, E.B. Craft, J.J. Carty, F. Jewett, J. Reynolds, G.A. Betulander, Nils Palmgren and E. Molina, among others, contributed to switching methods, exchange design, transmission methods, and the mathematical underpinnings of calling statistics.