coin-box

Updated: May 8, 2025

They test every telephone by actual talk, set up every switchboard, and try out every cable. A single transmitter, by the time it is completed, has had to pass three hundred examinations; and a single coin-box is obliged to count ten thousand nickels before it graduates into the outer world. Seven hundred inspectors are on guard in the two main plants at Chicago and New York.

Herbert Newton Casson - The History of the Telephone

With this in mind he stopped and dismissed his taxicab at Fifty-seventh Street and Sixth Avenue, and availed himself of a coin-box telephone booth in the corner druggist's. The experience that followed was nothing out of the ordinary.

Louis Joseph Vance - The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf