This article comes from WeChat public account “machine core” (ID: gamecores), author Nadya, Ai Faner Authorized release.
Technology is advancing rapidly and society is developing rapidly. I do n’t know when it will start. The birth of new things has become a matter of course for us. Just as we enjoy the convenience and speed brought by these new gadgets, Some old objects that we once considered “treasures” faded away, until no one mentioned them again.
Public phones are one of them.
Magical Kindergarten Magazine
A few days ago, as usual, I was browsing new news from various parties on social networks. Suddenly, a picture successfully attracted my attention in the colorful pages.
▲ “Kindergarten” magazine comes with public phone toys
People who have been to Japan personally, or are interested in Japanese film and television dramas, must be no stranger to this stuff. This is a green public telephone, walking in the streets and lanes of Japan, from time to time you will see its lonely figure , And in many film and television dramas and animation works, it will always be accompanied by the hero and heroine in important bridges.
The phone shown in the picture is not a public phone that can really be dialed, but a model toy that will be presented by the Japanese children’s magazine “Kindergarten (Kindergarten)” in the next issue.
“Kindergarten” magazine is famous for the various wonderful toys that are included with the magazine. From the capsule machine to the mole game machine to the public telephone, although it is only a bonus, they are really fine. Take the green public telephone toy in the picture above, it has a very high degree of imitating the shape. Children can also put the attached fake coins from the coin slot and take them out from the change slot below. More interesting is the complimentary fake phone card. When the child hangs the handset back to the machine, the machine will automatically spit out the phone card, which restores the use of the real public phone.
▲ “Kindergarten” magazine comes with an ice cream vending machine
In fact, I still have a lot to share with you about this magazine ’s giveaway, but this is not the focus of this article. We might as well use this toy to briefly talk about the history of Japanese public telephones. After all, we often see it on the screen. Except for the British red telephone booth, this is a green gadget.
The birth of public telephones
Even thousands of miles apart, voice transmission can be achieved through only one machine. This seems to be commonplace to ordinary people in the past, but wise scientists have turned the story into reality. Regarding the story of the birth of the telephone, I believe that my friends have long remembered it. Usually, we regard Alexander Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but it was not in the 1960s and 1970s.