Philipp Reis Inventor Of The Telephone A Biographical Sketch With Documentary Testimongy Translations Of The Original Papers Of The Inventor And Contemporary Publications

Author : Silvanus P. Thompson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333606756
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Philipp Reis, Inventor of the Telephone written by Silvanus P. Thompson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Philipp Reis, Inventor of the Telephone: A Biographical Sketch, With Documentary Testimony, Translations of the Original Papers of the Inventor and Contemporary Publications The title of this little work sufficiently indicates its nature and scope. The labour of preparing it has not been slight, and has involved the expenditure of much time in prose outing inquiries both in this country and in Germany amongst the surviving contemporaries of Philipp Reis. To set forth the history of this long-neglected inventor and of his instrument, and to establish upon its own merits, without special pleading, and without partiality, the nature of that much-misunderstood and much-abused invention, has been the aim of the writer. The thought that he might thus be of service in rendering justice to the memory of the departed worthy has inspired him to his task. He has nothing to gain by making Reis's invention appear either better or worse than it really was. He has therefore preferred to let the contemporary documents and the testimony of eye witnesses speak for themselves, and has added that which seemed to him desirable in the way of argument in the form of four appendices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.