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J. N. Reynolds

American engineer

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contribution to telephone switching

  • Alexander Graham Bell and the New York City–Chicago telephone link
    In telephone: Electromechanical switching

    In 1913 J.N. Reynolds, an engineer with Western Electric (at that time the manufacturing division of AT&T), patented a new type of telephone switch that became known as the crossbar switch. The crossbar switch was a grid composed of five horizontal selecting bars and 20 vertical hold…

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