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    Almon Brown Strowger was an undertaker and suspected that a rival buisness used their wife’s position as a switchboard operator to steal customers.

    So he invented the automatic switchboard and put his competitors wife out of a job.

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        Are you a fellow Lateral Podcast listener?

        Indeed, though I have the feeling that I’ve known about this story longer then that. Maybe it was on QI?

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          QI could be right, I couldn’t have recalled that fact but I also learned it and I watch QI but not lateral.

          Maybe I should be checking it out though