Laughter is the Best Medicine XVI: Outwitting the Competition
From anecdotage.com, the story of the rotary telephone dial:Rotary dials were patented in 1891 by Almon B. Strowger, an undertaker in the U.S. Midwest. The story goes that he noticed his funeral-home business was falling off and suddenly realized that the local telephone switchboard operator was the wife of his competitor. He invented the rotary dial so people could make their own connections.This tale earned an average of 9.26 points on a scale of 1 to 10 from 35 raters.
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