Johann Philipp Reis
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Johann Philipp Reis was a self-taught German scientist and inventor. In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone, today called the Reis telephone. It was the first device to transmit a
Johann Philipp Reis
Reis' home in Friedrichsdorf, now a museum
Reis' telephone
Reis monument in Gelnhausen: In 1878 European scientists declared Reis to be the telephone's inventor.
Invention of the telephone
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The invention of the telephone was the culmination of work done by many different people, and led to an array of lawsuits relating to the conflicting patent claims made by several individuals and nume
Johann Philipp Reis
…and Baddeck, N.S., [was] the inventor of the telephone." Prior to his death, Meucci had lost his only concluded Federal lawsuit trial related to the telephone's invention. German inventors and discoverers…
Replica of the telettrofono at Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci of Milan, Italy, invented by Antonio Meucci and credited by several sources as the first telephone.
Innocenzo Manzetti considered the idea of a telephone in 1844
Antonio Meucci, c.1880. In 1849 he developed a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.