Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!telecom-request From: sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: And He's Probably Rolling Over in His Grave Now Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 91 22:22:44 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Cal State Long Beach Lines: 12 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 193, Message 12 of 13 From L. M. Boyd's March 1 column: "William Gray wanted to call his sick wife, but his foreman wouldn't let him use the company phone. That's why Gray invented the pay phone in 1889." [Moderator's Note: As late as about 1960 I saw a "Gray Pay Station Company phone in service on a Southwestern Bell payphone line in southeastern Kansas. I've only seen the one, with the mouthpiece and earpiece as separate units, like the old candlestick phones. PAT]