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Johann Philipp Reis

1834 - 1874

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Johann Philipp Reis (German: [ʁaɪs]; 7 January 1834 – 14 January 1874) 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 voice via electronic signals, and is regarded by some as the first telephone. Reis also coined the term telephone. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Philipp Reis is the 112th most popular inventor (down from 107th in 2019), the 1,201st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,084th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Inventor.

Johann Philipp Reis is most famous for being the first person to fly an airplane in 1853.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Johann Philipp Reis ranks 112 out of 426. Before him are Étienne-Jules Marey, Orban, Walter Hunt, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Vladimir K. Zworykin, and William Webb Ellis. After him are David Bushnell, Josiah Warren, Clément Ader, Jacque Fresco, Robert Noyce, and James Hargreaves.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Johann Philipp Reis ranks 19. Before him are August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, Jan Neruda, Vasily Perov, Charles Spurgeon, and Aleksis Kivi. After him are Norodom of Cambodia, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Kondō Isami, Hetty Green, Kawakami Gensai, and Gaston Planté. Among people deceased in 1874, Johann Philipp Reis ranks 10. Before him are Howard Staunton, Adolphe Quetelet, François Guizot, David Strauss, Charles Gleyre, and Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria. After him are Josiah Warren, Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, Peter Cornelius, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, and Marià Fortuny.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Philipp Reis ranks 1,201 out of 7,253. Before him are Severinus of Noricum (410), Godfrey Kneller (1646), Josef Harpe (1887), Carsten Niebuhr (1733), Manuel Neuer (1986), and Engelbert Kaempfer (1651). After him are Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (1757), Johann Georg Pisendel (1687), Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1757), Walter Kasper (1933), Franz Josef Strauss (1915), and Hannah Höch (1889).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Johann Philipp Reis ranks 13. Before him are Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Karl Drais (1785), Konrad Zuse (1910), Adam Opel (1837), Emile Berliner (1851), and Joseph Pilates (1883). After him are Theobald Boehm (1794), Hans von Ohain (1911), Alfred Krupp (1812), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Siegfried Marcus (1831), and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772).

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