Philipp Reis
- Subtitle
- Inventor of the Telephone A Biographical Sketch
Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips) Thompson
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1. Front matter2. PHILIPP REIS:3. PREFACE.4. CHAPTER I. BIOGRAPHY OF THE INVENTOR.5. CHAPTER II. THE INVENTOR’S APPARATUS.6. CHAPTER III. THE CLAIM OF THE INVENTOR.7. CHAPTER IV. CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS.8. CHAPTER V. TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARY WITNESSES.9. APPENDIX I. Comparison of Reis’s Transmitters with Recent Instruments.10. APPENDIX II. On the Variation of Electric Resistance at a Point of Imperfect Contact in a Circuit.11. APPENDIX III. Comparison of Reis’s Receivers with Recent Instruments.12. APPENDIX IV. On the Doctrine of Undulatory Currents.13. ADDITIONAL PREFERENCES CONCERNING REIS’S TELEPHONE.14. BOOKS RELATING TO APPLIED SCIENCE PUBLISHED BY E. & F. N. SPON, LONDON: 16, CHARING CROSS. NEW YORK: 44, MURRAY STREET.15. JUST PUBLISHED. In super-royal 8vo, 1168 pp., with 2400 illustrations, in 3 Divisions, cloth, price 13s. 6d. each; or 1 vol., cloth, 2l.; or half-morocco, 2l. 8s. A SUPPLEMENT TO SPONS’ DICTIONARY OF ENGINEERING, Civil, Mechanical, Military and Naval. Edited by ERNEST SPON, Memb. Soc. Engineers.16. NOW COMPLETE. With nearly 1500 illustrations, in super-royal 8vo, in 5 Divisions, cloth. Divisions 1 to 4, 13s. 6d. each; Division 5, 17s. 6d.; or 2 vols., cloth, £3 10s. SPONS’ ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS. Edited by C. G. WARNFORD LOCK, F.L.S.