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Timeline of Pay Phones

By LynnComm72

  • Creation

    Creation
    William Gray invented the Pay phone.

  • Hartford

    Hartford
    The Pay Phone was installed at Hartford Bank.
  • Period: to

    Pay Phone

  • Lots of Phones!

    Lots of Phones!
    There were over 81,000 Pay Phones in the USA

  • Phone Booth

    Phone Booth
    On Cincinnati Street the first Pay Phone was installed outside in a booth. Nobody really liked it at first, some people were reluctanct to make priate calls on a public line.

  • Million

    Million
    The Bell System installed it's millioneth Pay Phone.

  • The Future

    I think that in the future the Pay Phones will almost be completely forgotten, because today with the Cell Phones and the Home Phones, barely anybody uses the Pay Phones, so it will probaly get worse in 2050.