• The Reis telephone was an invention named after Philipp Reis of a telephone-like device he constructed. Reis's first successful work is dated to October...
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    modern telephone. Reis also coined the term. Reis was born in Gelnhausen, Germany, the son of Marie Katharine (Glöckner) and Karl Sigismund Reis, a great...
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    type telephone transmitter later created by Johann Reis. 26 October 1861: Johann Philipp Reis (1834–1874) publicly demonstrated the Reis telephone before...
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    transmitted. 1861: Johann Philipp Reis transfers voice electrically over a distance of 340 feet with his Reis telephone. To prove that speech can be recognized...
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    used Reis's work for the successful development of the carbon microphone. Edison acknowledged his debt to Reis thus: The first inventor of a telephone was...
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    the first telephone, today called the Reis telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876...
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    A telephone number is a sequence of digits assigned to a landline telephone subscriber station connected to a telephone line or to a wireless electronic...
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  • Reeves Inventor of pulse code modulation Johann Philipp Reis Inventor of the Reis telephone Hyman G. Rickover 'Father' of the nuclear Navy Edward S....
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    word." In 1861, German inventor Johann Philipp Reis built an early sound transmitter (the "Reis telephone") that used a metallic strip attached to a vibrating...
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  • American Bell Telephone. Western Union advocated several more recent patent claims of Daniel Drawbaugh, Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci, and Philip Reis in a bid...
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    Telephone numbers in Asia have the most possible prefixes of any continent on Earth: 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9. Below is a list of country calling codes for various...
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    the Supreme Court (1867–1870) Johann Philipp Reis (1834–1874), teacher and inventor of the Reis telephone Karl Willy Wagner (1883–1953), pioneer in the...
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  • telephone Telephone in United States history Hybrid routing Innocenzo Manzetti Invention of the telephone Jipp curve Local loop Mobile phone Philipp Reis Phreaking...
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  • A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony...
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  • calling codes in Africa. Telephone numbering plan List of country calling codes List of international call prefixes Category:Telephone numbers by country International...
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    cellphone) is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed...
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    Telephone numbers in India are administered under the National Numbering Plan of 2003 by the Department of Telecommunications of the Government of India...
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    The Australian telephone numbering plan governs the allocation of telephone numbers in Australia. It has changed many times, the most recent major reorganisation...
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    known as the National Telephone Numbering Plan, which is the system for assigning telephone numbers to subscriber stations. Telephone numbers are of variable...
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  • illustrator (b. 1780) 1874 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone (b. 1834) 1883 – Napoléon Coste, French guitarist...
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    which mostly is used by countries in Africa. Telephone numbering plan National conventions for writing telephone numbers List of country calling codes List...
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  • of Victoria (d. 1908) 1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874) 1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English...
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    A telephone exchange, also known as a telephone switch or central office, is a crucial component in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or large...
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    dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas...
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    The Bell Telephone Company was the initial corporate entity from which the Bell System originated to build a continental conglomerate and monopoly in...
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    Telephone numbers in the People's Republic of China are administered according to the Telecommunications Network Numbering Plan of China. The structure...
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    telephone transmitter and Emile Berliner was working on a loose-contact transmitter. Both Hughes and Edison may have based their work on Philipp Reis'...
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    Telephone numbers in the Netherlands are administered by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation of the Netherlands. The telephone...
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  • The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local telephony...
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  • Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), or Plain Ordinary Telephone System, is a retronym for voice-grade telephone service employing analog signal transmission...
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