Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone / A Biographical Sketch

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A compact biography of Philipp Reis is paired with a careful assembly of contemporary documents and translations relating to his early telephone apparatus. The text presents personal and biographical material alongside original papers, eyewitness testimony, technical descriptions, illustrations, and contemporary publications, while appendices scrutinize the instrument's construction and the claims made for it. The author emphasizes primary evidence, offers explanatory commentary on operating principles, and sets out reasoned analysis of how the device functioned and was received by contemporaries, letting documentary testimony form the backbone of the account.

MEDALLION AND AUTOGRAPH FROM MONUMENT TO PHILIPP REIS AT FRIEDRICHSDORF.

PHILIPP REIS:

INVENTOR OF

THE TELEPHONE.

A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH,

WITH DOCUMENTARY TESTIMONY, TRANSLATIONS OF THE ORIGINAL PAPERS OF THE INVENTOR AND CONTEMPORARY PUBLICATIONS.

SILVANUS P. THOMPSON, B.A., D.Sc., PROFESSOR OF EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, BRISTOL.

LONDON: E. & F. N. SPON, 16, CHARING CROSS.
NEW YORK: 35, MURRAY STREET.
1883.