#OnThisDate August 13, 1889: Payphone Origin

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References / More Knowledge:
William Gray, Coin-Controlled Apparatus For Telephones, United States Patent No. 408,709, Patented August 13, 1889. https://patents.google.com/patent/US408709A/en
William Gray (Inventor) Biography, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gray_%28inventor%29
“The Pay Phone’s Journey From Patent To Urban Relic,” Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/first-and-last-pay-phone-180952727/
“Now You Know: Where Was The First Public Telephone Booth?” Time Magazine. https://time.com/4425102/public-telephone-booth-history/
Payphone Entry, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payphone
“Hartford’s Chest Protector And Payphone Inventor,” GHTBL (Greater Hartford Historical Blog). https://ghtbl.org/gray
“Gray’s Anatomy Of A Payphone,” The IET Engineering X Blog. https://engx.theiet.org/b/blogs/posts/gray-s-anatomy-of-a-payphone
“Site Of World’s First Pay Phone,” CTMQ. https://www.ctmq.org/site-of-worlds-first-pay-phone/