- Kornhamnstorg 4
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59.322774, 18.070584 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)
- Telephone booths near the building
- Number of isolators on the roof
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Historical background
Telephone services in Stockholm began to be installed in 1877 as the telephone set was demonstrated to King Oscar II. Since Alexander Bell, an inventor of the telephone, did not patent his invention in Sweden, the well-known Lars Magnus Ericsson, a founder of the like-named company, started to manufacture telephone equipment in the same year. However the first public telephone network was launched in 1880 by the Stockholm telephone company of Bell and the rental fee in a 121-user network was 160-280 krones, subject to the distance to a station, which is now equivalent to 10-15 thousand krones. In 1887 there appeared a futuristic telephone tower for 4,000 telephone lines, in 1908 - for 106 thousand users, in 1923 - the first automatic system... Now corded telephones in Sweden are some sort of anachronysm, typical of big offices, let alone with street automatic telephones. These have been forced out by cheap, convenient and publicly available mobile service and the Internet.
Present in routes of categories Lion-Light, Angel, Griffin, Lion-Pro
Passed by: 71/85 (84%).
By categories:
- Angel: 11/16 (69%)
- Griffin: 4/5 (80%)
- Lion-Light: 25/30 (83%)
- Lion-Pro: 31/34 (91%)