ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 months agoWhat's your favorite thing that anyone has done out of pure spite?message-squaremessage-square101linkfedilinkarrow-up1191arrow-down11
arrow-up1190arrow-down1message-squareWhat's your favorite thing that anyone has done out of pure spite?ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square101linkfedilink
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up148·edit-24 months agoAlmon Brown Strowger was an undertaker and suspected that a rival buisness used their wife’s position as a switchboard operator to steal customers. So he invented the automatic switchboard and put his competitors wife out of a job.
Almon Brown Strowger was an undertaker and suspected that a rival buisness used their wife’s position as a switchboard operator to steal customers.
So he invented the automatic switchboard and put his competitors wife out of a job.