Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 290
hrough trumpets. He could makehis telephone heard six miles away. The firstreal suggestion of the telephone as we know itcomes from Reis, the German professor of phys-ics at Friedrichsdorf, who in 1860 constructedwith a coil of wire, a knitting-needle, the skin ofa German sausage, the bung of a… … Professor Bell Sending the First Message, by Long-distance Telephone, from New York to Chicago. THE NEW YORK, PUBLIC LIBRARY L IONS. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL 265 p at the other end of the wire. The same ideawas taken up in this country by Elisha Gray,Edison, and by Alexander Graham Bell, whofirst…
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