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
experimenting with it.
We would bring to the notice of gentlemen who are professional
physicists that the inventor of these interesting pieces of apparatus
now has them prepared for sale under his oversight (the important parts
he makes himself), and the same can be procured from him direct, or
through the mechanician, Mr. Wilhelm Albert, of Frankfort-on-the-Main,
at 14 and at 21 florins, in two qualities, differing only in external
adornment.
[A review, written by Dr. Röber of Berlin, of this and other articles
relating to the Telephone appeared subsequently in the ‘Fortschritte
der Physik,’ 1863, p. 96.]
[Another consequence of the publicity thus given to the Telephone was
the appearance of an article on that instrument, under the title of
“Der Musiktelegraph,” in a popular illustrated weekly family paper,
‘Die Gartenlaube,’ published at Leipzig. This article, from the pen, it
is believed, of Dr. Oppel of Frankfort, is made up chiefly of slightly
altered extracts from the previously quoted documents. The form of
the instrument described is identical with that described in Reis’s
‘Prospectus,’ and the figure given in the ‘Gartenlaube,’ No. 51, p.
809, is a reprint, apparently from the same wood-block of the figure
which heads Reis’s Prospectus, and which is reproduced on p. 86 of this
work. The only passage of further interest is a brief sentence relating
to the exhibition of the Telephone at the German Naturalists’ Assembly
at Stettin in 1863, and is as follows:--]
[=11.=] “Now in order also to give to a still wider circle, especially
to technologists (Fachmännern), the opportunity of witnessing with
their own eyesight the efficiency of this apparatus,--lately, in fact
essentially improved,--Professor Böttger of Frankfort-on-the-Main
exhibited several experiments therewith at the meeting of the German
Naturalists (Naturforscher) and Physicians recently held at Stettin, in
the Section for Physics; which [experiments] would certainly have been
crowned with still greater success if the place of meeting had been in
a less noisy neighbourhood, and had been filled with a somewhat less
numerous audience.”
[The next extract is a brief record from the Report of a scientific
society meeting in Giessen, which during the Austro-Prussian war of
1866 had become disorganised, and which in 1867 published a condensed
account of its proceedings for the preceding years. Amongst those
proceedings was a lecture by the late Professor Buff, at which Reis’s
Telephone was shown, and at which Reis himself is believed to have been
present.]
[=12.=] [EXTRACT FROM THE ‘TWELFTH REPORT OF THE UPPER-HESSIAN
ASSOCIATION FOR NATURAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE,’ (‘Oberhessische
Gesellschaft für Natur und Heilkunde,’) Giessen, February 1867.]
P. 155. Report on the doings and condition of the Association from the
1st of July, 1863, to the 1st of July, 1865, by Herr Gymnasiallehrer
Dr. W. Diehl.
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