• electrical engineering, a stepping switch or stepping relay, also known as a uniselector, is an electromechanical device that switches an input signal path...
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    The Strowger switch is the first commercially successful electromechanical stepping switch telephone exchange system. It was developed by the Strowger...
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    World War II. The machine was an electromechanical device that used stepping-switches to encrypt the most sensitive diplomatic traffic. All messages were...
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    digits caused the shaft of the central contact "hand" of the stepping switch to first step (ratchet) up one level for each pulse in the first digit and...
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    Slotted optical switch Stepping switch Strowger switch Thermal switch Time switch Touch switch Transfer switch Wire switches Zero speed switch Circuit breaker...
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    Nixie tube (redirect from Beam-X Switch)
    by wiring the outputs of stepping switches to indicator bulbs. Later, a few vintage clocks even used a form of stepping switch to drive Nixie tubes. Nixie...
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    The Nintendo Switch is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. Released in the middle of the...
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    switch panel'. These signals from the wheel simulators could be specified as stepping on with each new pass of the message tape or not. The K2 switch...
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    position at one given step. Motors vary in size, speed, step resolution, and torque. Switched reluctance motors are very large stepping motors with a reduced...
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    a crossbar switch (cross-point switch, matrix switch) is a collection of switches arranged in a matrix configuration. A crossbar switch has multiple...
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