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Highgate Wood telephone exchange

First all-electronic exchange in Britain

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Highgate Wood telephone exchange was the first all-electronic telephone exchange in Britain. It was built in Grand Avenue, in the London suburb of Muswell Hill, by members of the Joint Electronic Research Council (JERC).

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