Editing Automatic Electric (section)

{{short description|American telecommunications equipment manufacturer}}
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| name = Automatic Electric Group
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| trade_name = Automatic Electric <!-- d/b/a/, doing business as - if different from legal name above -->
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| industry = Electronic manufacturing
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| fate = Merged to [[GTE]] Network Systems in 1983
| predecessor = Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange Company (1891)
| successor = Now part of [[Nokia]]
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1901}}, in [[Chicago, Illinois]]
| founder = [[Almon Strowger|Almon B. Strowger]]
| defunct = {{End date and age|1983}}
| location_city = Chicago, Illinois
| location_country = United States of America
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| area_served = US, Canada, Europe
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| products = Automatic switching systems and telephones
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| parent = [[Theodore Gary & Company]], later [[GTE]]
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'''Automatic Electric Company''' ('''A.E. Co.''') was an American telephone equipment supplier primarily for [[independent telephone companies]] in North America, but also had a worldwide presence. With its line of automatic telephone exchanges, it was also a long-term supplier of switching equipment to the [[Bell System]], starting in 1919.<ref name=AE1955/>
The company was the largest manufacturing unit of the Automatic Electric Group.<ref name=AE1955>GTE Automatic Electric (1955) ''This is Automatic Electric--Pioneers in Communication Techniques''</ref> In 1955, the company was acquired by [[General Telephone and Electronics]] (GT&E). After numerous reorganization within GTE, the company's assets came under the umbrella of [[Lucent]] in the 1990s, and subsequently part of [[Nokia]].