On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:34:22 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote: > the first telephone indeed was invented 1860 by Phillip Reis. Alexander Graham > Bell's improved telephone came out 1876.
According to the website you supplied, Reis's "telephone" was not capable of transmitting human speech over a wire, only simple sounds. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Reis invented a forerunner to the telephone. The reason few people have heard of him is that there was little practical value to his "telephone". Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
