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The ‘forgotten’ inventor of the phone: Phillip Reis

As an orphan, he never had the opportunity to study. As an autodidact, however, the Hessian inventor Phillip Reis was full of creative ideas. In 1861, he had made what he called ‘telephone’, the forerunner of today’s telephones. In … Continue reading →

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