Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 286
gh trumpets. He could makehis telephone heard six miles awav. 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. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL 265 at the other end of the wire. The same ideawas taken up in this country by Elisha Gray,Edison, and by Alexander Graham Bell, \vhofirst exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition…
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