The world’s first phone box called Fernsprechkiosk, was opened on January 12, 1881 at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, while credit for the telephone’s invention is disputed by more people, including Antonio Meucci. Today most phone booths have been abandoned for mobile phones and eventually transformed into other public street services like lending libraries or free book exchanges in the form of shelves of donated books (such as the one pictured above). |
