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Contents. Johann Philipp Reis. Johann Philipp Reis (German: [ʁaɪs]; 7 January 1834 – 14 January 1874) was a self-taught German scientist and inventor. In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone, today called the Reis telephone. It was the first device to transmit a voice via electronic signals and for that the first modern ...
Johann Philipp Reis (born Jan. 7, 1834, Gelnhausen, Hesse-Kassel [Germany]—died Jan. 14, 1874, Friedrichsdorf, Ger.) was a German physicist who constructed a precursor of the electric telephone. Reis was educated at Frankfurt am Main, became a merchant for a few years, and in 1858 began teaching in Friedrichsdorf.
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Philipp Reis was born on January 7, 1834 in Gelnhausen, Germany in a Jewish family as son of a baker. Reis’s mother died while he was an infant, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother, a well-read woman. At the age of six Reis was sent to the common school of his home town of Gelnhausen. Here his talents attracted the notice of his instructo...
The telephone was invented by at least five different people in four different countries. Although Alexander Graham Bell is generally credited as the “winner” in the race to invent the telephone in the period between 1850 and 1876, his invention was preceded or paralleled by Philipp Reis, the Belgian-French Charles Bourseul, the Italian Antonio Meu...
After nine years of work, Reis had refined his device to the point that he could present it to Frankfurt’s Physics Association on 26 October 1861. His lecture on “Telephony Using Galvanic Current” („Das Telefonieren durch galvanischen Strom”) did not receive as much enthusiasm as Reis might have hoped for. But two years later, 50 copies of his “Tel...
Johann Philipp Reis The Reis telephone was developed from 1857 onwards. Allegedly, the transmitter was difficult to operate, since the relative position of the needle and the contact were critical to the device's operation.
From 1863, Philipp Reis asked the mechanic Johann Wilhelm Albert, based in Frankfurt am Main, to manufacture a small production run of his telephones. These handmade individual pieces of apparatus featured slight deviations and so each one was, effectively, unique.
The Reis telephone was an invention named after Philipp Reis of a telephone -like device he constructed. Reis's first successful work is dated to October 1861. It was the first device to transmit a voice via electronic signals and for that the first modern telephone. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Reis also coined the term. [ 3 ]
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In the next decades, Johann Philipp Reis and Antonio Meucci developed electromagnetic devices that could transmit music and some voice communication. But it was a teacher interested in sound and speech instruction for the deaf, Alexander Graham Bell, who would combine the power of electromagnetism with a machinery of vibration and thereby establish the basis of modern telephone technology.
