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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 \u2018telephone\u2019, the forerunner of today\u2019s telephones. Known in Germany as the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell is considered the inventor in the USA. A book now tries to put the inventor Reis in the right light.
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The title is: The forgotten inventor \u2013 how Philipp Reis invented the phone<\/a>.<\/p>\n It's an adventurous story: From a violin, a knitting needle and the bladder of a rabbit, the Hessian tinkerer genius Philipp Reis made the world's first telephone in 1861. He calls his invention \u2018telephone\u2019.<\/p>\n But how can the unstudied orphan boy do this and how does his invention work? Who is this century-old inventor? Why has he been forgotten? The fascinating story of the life and invention of the creative mind Philipp Reis is told by the historian Dr. Wolfram Weimer in The Forgotten Inventor \u2013 How Philipp Reis invented the telephone, from the CH. Goetz publishing house.<\/p>\n In advance, I have to pull some teeth and dismantle myths that are often retold \u2013 even in the current case. For me it was clear, even before reading the book: The name Phillip Reis has always been associated with the person who invented the first phone. The American Alexander Graham Bell deserves the fame of being the first to bring this \u2018invention\u2019 to market and patent it there. The story can be, among other things, this website<\/a> Read it.<\/p>\n And those who deal with the topic of inventions know that in many cases different people were sitting on the same topic. One wins \u2013 not always the first. This was the case with the automobile, flying and many other inventions. So I took a look.<\/p>\n How to list the Wikipedia<\/a> several tinkerers who were already working on the idea of the phone before Rice. The Parisian telegraph officer Charles Bourseul<\/a> As early as 1854, he described possible techniques of electrical speech transmission, which Reis later implemented, but which was dismissed as spinning. There was the theatrical mechanic. Antonio Meucci<\/a>, which had already introduced a \u2018remote voice\u2019 device in the United States in 1860. It was published in an Italian newspaper. Meucci's documents came into the hands of Alexander Graham Bell, who, with this information, probably developed and patented the device called the telephone ready for production. From this point of view, the question of who the inventor was is actually clear: The technology was in the air because the components (electricity, conductors, coils, etc.) that were needed were available and the principles of how to do it were well known. Alone, there was a lack of practical implementation, as one would say today. And at the end of the day, for me as an engineer, the question was: Who leads this to market maturity and helps the invention to a breakthrough. Here my view of things is probably more differentiated than that of humanities scientists.<\/p>\n I received the title from the publisher as a review copy and read it some time ago, also from the point of view that I was aware of the technical circumstances. It is already an exciting read, which the historian Dr. Wolfram Weimer prepares in book form. He describes the living conditions of the young Phillip Reis, who as the son of a baker, soon orphan, made it to the physics teacher in spite of adverse circumstances as a 27-year-old and, incidentally, tinkers with various inventions.<\/p>\n One of them is the phone, which is built by him in numerous variants. There was a problem with rice: The electrical transmission of sounds worked in principle. But the comprehension was modest. Music could be conveyed easily, but the language was jammed. I only knew that after reading the book \u2013 so I learned something else. For example, I had always believed that the first sentence transmitted by telephone was \u2018The horse does not eat cucumber salad\u2019. True, this phrase was spoken into the microphone of the phone. On the opposite side with the loudspeaker (in the form of a Grammophone funnel), however, only \u2018The horse eats \u2026\u2019 was understood. So I learned something else \u2013 and now I don\u2019t have to die stupidly.<\/p>\n Dr. Wolfram Weimer knows how to link these and other anecdotes in his work with the history of the telephone. This makes the book an exciting read, so that I have read it \u2013 despite background knowledge \u2013 across the board. From the historian's point of view, it seems logical that I personally supported it when, after the detailed description of the development of the telephone, embedded in the circumstances of Phillip Reis, the same information suddenly appeared in the second part in the form of a \u2018CV and the descriptions written by Reis\u2019. I had already read the information, so I saved myself this part of the reading. As already indicated, the historian is certainly right to describe it this way \u2013 I, as the author of about 300 technical books from the IT sector, might have solved this differently and woven the autobiography into the fabric. But this is a personal point of view on my part and ultimately a matter of taste.<\/p>\n The book is richly illustrated and gives a good insight into the time with Prussian court officials, the Physikalisches Verein zu Frankfurt am Main (in whose rooms I participated as a physics engineer in the 80s of the previous century myself as a listener) and his \u2018scientists\u2019. And it shows how Reis struggled to develop his idea into a usable device, but ultimately failed to implement it in practice. This part was taken over by the more pragmatic American Alexander Graham Bell, who thus laid the basis for a large company. This is also part of the history of the phone.<\/p>\n My conclusion: Exciting book, well illustrated and nicely written. However, somewhat unfortunately hung under the heading \u2018forgotten inventor\u2019. From this point of view, I find Articles like here<\/a> It is rather lacking in place. As a blogger and author, I know that you have to sell the message somehow. But I cannot identify a dispute between historians \u2013 and without having dealt with the matter before reading the book, the facts were somehow clear to me (but may be related to my professional career). If you are looking for a fun and entertaining reading of German history of time and technology, also as a gift for a technically interested person, you will surely find a suitable candidate in this book.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 \u2018telephone\u2019, the forerunner of today\u2019s telephones. 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