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Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone / A Biographical Sketch

Chapter 61: ADDITIONAL PREFERENCES CONCERNING REIS’S TELEPHONE.
By Silvanus P. Thompson
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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.

ADDITIONAL PREFERENCES CONCERNING REIS’S TELEPHONE.

  • Schenk’s Philipp Reis, der Erfinder des Telephons, 1878.
  • Sack’s Die Entwickelung der elektrischen Telephonie, 1878.
  • Ferguson’s Electricity (Ed. 1867), p. 257.
  • Wiedemann’s Galvanismus (1874), Vol. ii. p. 598.
  • Gartenlaube, die; for 1863, No. 51, p. 807-809.
  • Aus der Natur; for 1862, xxi. p. 470-474.
  • Cosmos, Vol. xxiv. p. 349 (1864).
  • Proc. Lit. Phil. Soc. Manchester (1865), Nov. 10, 1864.
  • Rep. Brit. Assoc. (1863), p. 19.
  • Die Geschichte und Entwickelung des elektrischen Fernsprechwesens, 1880. (Officially issued from the Imperial German Post-Office, Berlin.)

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