Editing Automatic Electric (section)

==Products==
[[File:IllinoisTunnelAdStock.png|thumb|upright|1910 advertisement explaining the use of an Automatic Electric dial telephone for placing long-distance calls. The [[Chicago Tunnel Company|Illinois Tunnel Company]] in [[Chicago]] was one of the largest early users of Automatic Electric equipment.]]

As its principal product line, Automatic Electric manufactured automatic [[stepping switch]]es (specifically, "[[Strowger switch]]es") which had enabled Strowger's vision. These switches allowed customers to connect their own calls without operator assistance.

Automatic Electric's [[rotary dial]] makes a single clicking sound as it is released but is otherwise fairly silent, while Western Electric's rotary dial has a distinctive whirring sound as the dial returns to the normal position.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}} Many Automatic Electric telephones use a distinctive dual-gong ringer, the low and high tones of which are a [[Interval (music)|perfect fifth]] apart, in contrast to the typical third interval of most Western Electric ringers.

The [[GTD-5 EAX]], GTE Automatic Electric's digital class [[class 4 telephone switch|4]]/[[class 5 telephone switch|5]] central office telephone switch, was first deployed on June 26, 1982.