Payphone

In 1889, at the American William Gray sick wife.
The future inventor then spent a lot of time and effort to the entreaties of one of the owners of the few phones to allow the much-needed to make a call.
Subsequently, Gray has set a goal to create a phone that would be able to serve as teller.
The original version of the device was only a prototype of the payphones. In 1891, Gray established its own telephone company, constantly working on improving the devices, thus do not forget timely patents for their inventions.

This first pay phone or a pay phone in the modern sense was shown in 1890 at the World Exhibition in Paris. And in the same year in the US city of Hartford it was established the first public payphone. The fee for the use of this innovation was instructed to gather the controller.

In Russia, the first pay phone appeared in Moscow in 1909. And since then, a long time this kind of communication did not lose its popularity in Russia, despite the fact that it payphones bravely took on the most powerful bursts of aggression. Engineers should no small labor to come up with more and more new models vandal-proof outdoor payphones. A "kopeck piece" (2 penny coin) for many years was mandatory coin during urban travel. Of course, the development of modern mobile communication clearly reduced the severity of the problems - and the Vandals, and "kopeck piece." And to abolish one of the most famous street dating methods: "Girl, you do not tell me where is the nearest telephone booth? A two cents you can not find? ».

Such a pay phone on the memory of several generations.