[DOC] [TLE] The First Pay Phone [PAR] The first public coin telephone was installed by inventor William Gray at a bank in 
... It was a "postpay" machine (coins were deposited after the call was placed). 
The first pay phone was invented in 1889 and by 1902, there were over 81,000... [DOC] [TLE] The Pay Phone's Journey From Patent to Urban Relic | History ... [PAR] Sep 18, 2014 ... This could be a great inconvenience, as one William Gray would ... Patent 
408,709 for a "coin-controlled apparatus for telephones," issued August 13, 1889. 
Gray's first prototype device involved a box that covered the mouth of ... A 
hundred years later, there were more than 2 million pay phones installed in... [DOC] [TLE] Payphone - Wikipedia [PAR] A payphone (alternative spelling: pay phone) is typically a coin-operated public 
telephone, often located in a telephone booth or a privacy hood, with pre-
payment by inserting money (usually coins) or by billing a credit or debit card, or 
a telephone card. Prepaid calling cards also facilitate establishing a call by first 
calling the .... The coin mechanism was invented by William Gray; he was issued 
a series... [DOC] [TLE] Now You Know: Where was the First Public Telephone Booth? | TIME [PAR] Aug 3, 2016 ... But, as the telephone grew in the years after its invention, so too did the demand 
for a way ... Though there's no clear information about where the very first 
telephone one was installed, ... Created by William Gray, who had previously 
invented an inflatable chest ... 13, 1889 was issued a patent for his device. [DOC] [TLE] Telephone History - Invention of the Telephone [PAR] Jan 11, 2006 ... 1877 first city exchange installed in Hartford, Connecticut ... 1888 coin operated 
pay telephone was patented by William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut ... This was 
the technological basis of the telephone, but no one actually used ... and what 
followed after that is a history of the founding of the Bell Telephone... [DOC] [TLE] GC5VEGE Another Quarter Please (Traditional Cache) in Kentucky ... [PAR] Hidden : 5/13/2015 ... The first pay phone was designed by William Gray 1889. ... 
Gray's pay phone allowed callers to wait and pay after the completion of the call 
but ... had reached such popularity that there were 81,000 installed in the United 
States. ... For many years the cost stayed at 25 cents for 4 minutes. ... Quick one. [DOC] [TLE] GC4N0PK Whooo UGoing2 Call From Ruthven? (Unknown Cache ... [PAR] Jul 6, 2016 ... In 1889, the first public coin telephone was invented by William Gray and 
installed at ... In 1960, the Bell System installed its one millionth telephone booth. 
... After that privately owned payphones hit the market. ... Pay phones in Alberta 
were 35 cents for a time, but in most jurisdictions ... Day one 13th of July [DOC] [TLE] How Bell Killed the Payphone Before it Even Existed [PAR] Jun 5, 2013 ... William Gray, Payphone Inventor - from Mechanix Magazine, April, 1953 ... Barely 
four years after receiving a patent for his best known invention (that is, the ... year, 
June 1, 1889 to be exact, William Gray installed his first pay ... That's still about 
1,000/state, but it's only a quarter what it was 13 years ago! [DOC] [TLE] Welcome to the Phone Booth Capital of America ... [PAR] Sep 30, 1990 ... Pay-phone booths, invented by William Gray of Hartford, Conn., came along in 
1889, 13 years after Alexander Graham Bell received his patent for the telephone
. Gray's first booth was erected in a Hartford bank. ... and asked him to build a 
better phone booth--one that would last longer, be easier to install... [DOC] [TLE] AUSWR News [PAR] Today, thanks to a donation by Killorin a few years ago, the phone booth is on 
display ... The move affects AT&T pay phones in its traditional 13-state service 
area. ... That number has fallen precipitously to 1 million this year, AT&T said. ... 
1889: The

Question: In 1889, 13 years after the invention of this, William Gray installed the first pay one
Answer: Telephone