{"id":4008,"date":"2024-08-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4008"},"modified":"2024-08-10T12:53:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T17:53:35","slug":"august-13-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4008","title":{"rendered":"August 13, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alexander Graham Bell received U.S. Patent No. 174,465 on the telephone on March 7, 1876.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"583\" height=\"882\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-30.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4009\" style=\"width:531px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-30.png 583w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-30-198x300.png 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Surprisingly, it took the industry more than 13 years to come up with the pay telephone.  On August 13, 1889, William Gray received U.S. Patent No. 408709 on a &#8220;Coined Controlled Apparatus for Telephones.&#8221;  (These days telecommunication companies are much more adept at monetizing their technology).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"688\" height=\"896\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-31.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-31.png 688w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-31-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first pay phone was installed on the corner of Main Street and Central Row, in Hartford, Connecticut, Gray&#8217;s hometown, later that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Graham Bell received U.S. Patent No. 174,465 on the telephone on March 7, 1876. Surprisingly, it took the industry more than 13 years to come up with the pay telephone. On August 13, 1889, William Gray received U.S. Patent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4008\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4011,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions\/4011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}