Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone: A Biographical SketchThompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips)
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Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone: A Biographical Sketch
Thompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips)
Reis, Philipp, 1834-1874; Telephone -- History
To ensure the correctness of these Tables of Logarithms,
they were compared with Callett’s, Vega’s, Hutton’s,
Briggs’, Gardiner’s, and Taylor’s Tables of Logarithms,
and carefully read by nine different readers; and further,
to remove any possibility of an error remaining, the
stereotyped sheets were hung up in the Hall at Cambridge
University, and a reward offered to anyone who could find
an inaccuracy. So correct are these Tables, that since
their first issue in 1827 no error has been discovered.
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Definitions of Words and Terms used in
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