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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Telephone Week: The Undertaker Who Developed Automatic Phone Dialing
Description: This week we're replaying episodes that are anything but phoned in. For this episode from November 2021, the first automatic dial network happened because of a business dispute between two undertakers. Plus: the story of John Baxter Taylor, Jr, the first Black American to win an Olympic gold medal. Almon B. Strowger: The undertaker who revolutionized telephone technology (Spark Museum of Electrical Invention)First African American Olympic gold medalist was a Penn grad (University of Pennsylvania)Help us invent hundreds more episodes of our show as a backer on Patreon