So how come Bell gets all the credit in the popular imagination? Was Bell aware of Reis's work?
Where was Reis from? I never heard of him before. Sam Ewalt On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:34:22 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote: > Hi Sam and all, > On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 13:31:53 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: >> Phillip Reis? Must be the European perspective. Us Americans were >> always taught that the first telephone message was spoken by >> Alexander Graham Bell: "Come here, Watson, I need you." (Watson >> was Bell's assistant) > the first telephone indeed was invented 1860 by Phillip Reis. Alexander Graham > Bell's improved telephone came out 1876. > Regards Joerg > -- Arachne V1.70, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
