Automatic Electric Company Building
id:
automatic-electric-company-building-192-228348
title:
Automatic Electric Company Building
text:
The Automatic Electric Company Building, located at 1000 W. Van Buren Street in Chicago, Illinois, is the original headquarters of the Automatic Electric Company. The company developed and popularized the automatic telephone exchange in the early 20th century. Inventor Almon Strowger had begun producing and selling automatic switches in the 1890s, but never had a permanent factory; when he helped form the Automatic Electric Company in 1901, the company constructed the building on Van Buren as a
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
United States historic place
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Electric_Company_Building
date created:
date modified:
2023-10-18T17:29:32Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q65117738","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65117738"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Automatic_Electric_Company_Building_4.JPG","width":3504,"height":2336}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15