What is this???
Nataliia ChubovaA teacher of English
Lutsk specialist school 5
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A payphone is a public telephone, often located in a telephone booth or a privacy hood, with pre-payment by inserting money (usually coins), a credit or debit card, or a telephone card.
Payphone
Ever since the first payphones were opened to the public, using attendants who collected the money and placed
the calls, the payphone has become an American icon.
Payphones are often found in public places,
transportation hubs such as airports or train
stations, convenience stores, malls, casinos, and on street corners.
Payphones were preceded by pay stations,
manned by telephone company attendants who
would collect payment for calls placed. In 1889,
the first public coin telephone was invented
by William Gray and installed at a bank in
Hartford, Connecticut.
The invention quickly caught on, and by 1902, there were
81,000 payphones in the United States. By
1905, the first outdoor payphones with booths were
installed. By the end of 1925, 25,000 of
these booths existed in New York City
alone. In 1960, the Bell System installed
its one millionth telephone booth.
A telephone booth or public call box is a small structure furnished
with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's
convenience. In the USA and Canada, "telephone booth" is
used, while in the United Kingdom, Australia and the rest
of the Commonwealth of Nations it is a "telephone box" or
"phone box"
Telephone booth
Now the industry is leading the way with new technologies and innovations
for the 21st century. From a street corner to a coffee shop, in all the
familiar places where payphones are located today, consumers can see
cutting edge technologies that offer services ranging from sending a fax,
surfing the web, or calling home using a laptop.
PAYPHONE
The payphone has come a long way since William Gray sold his first back in 1891 - an exciting journey from coins to cutting edge.
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