On August 13, 1889, William Gray from Hartford, Connecticut, received the patent for the coin phone.
No other means of communication has had as much impact on our daily lives as the phone. Simplistically, the phone is a system that transforms the sound, especially the human voice, into electric pulses of different frequencies, which then transforms them into a tone that resembles the human voice.
The first practical phone was invented independently by two scientists in the United States, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell, in 1876. Subsequent improvements were followed: the phone with chips (1889), the rotating disc (1923) cell phone (1946), cell phone (1981).
The first coin phone was installed in 1889 by its inventor, William Gray, at a bank in Hartford, Connecticut. The introduction of the coins was done after the conversation ended. A year later, in Chicago, the first phone with chips appeared in which the payment was made before the call. If there were 81,000 public phones in the United States in 1902, today their number exceeds 2 million. The cabins made from the beginning of wood began to be replaced with some plastic in the 50s. AGERPRES / ![]
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After the first one, the ten card
The new pay phones have passed the turn of 10, 20 or 100lion in turn. Vandalized have also vandalized these Romanians; It was right, it took several shots to collect some coins, but the ancestral inventiveness was once again of great help to the wise men. There have been cases in which the phones have been stolen altogether, the receivers have been removed, only the carcasses have been stolen. Removing us from 1990 and approaching with small civilization, we finally went to public payphones with a prepaid card. Orange, with keys, with a larger display, they have also become a useful and entertaining object for the unusual man with technology. Slowly, public payphones disappeared, leaving only those with a card.
The mobile "caps" the public phone
The public phone card had its glory period, but with the invasion of mobile phones on the Romanian market, it gradually hit the indifference of the mobile user. Because the offerings of the mobile phone companies were not so generous at first, the public telephone went smoothly for a while, but with the increase of the generous offers of the mobile operators, fewer Romanians turned to the orange phones with or without cabin.
Year-to-year, the number of users drops, a phenomenon that has been encountered in other countries where the secret of mobile telephony has been learned earlier. At present, there are 35,200 in Romania, 12869 of which are telephone booths. In Sibiu there are 936 public phones, of which 239 are telephone booths.
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