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.