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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 for that the first modern telephone. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Philipp Reis has received more than 389,071 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Johann Philipp Reis is the 107th most popular inventor (up from 114th in 2019), the 1,084th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,145th 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 107 out of 426. Before him are Robert Noyce, Louis Le Prince, Jacque Fresco, John Harrison, Edmund Cartwright, and Joseph Pilates. After him are Clément Ader, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Gaston Glock, Lee de Forest, Léon Theremin, and Alfred Krupp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Johann Philipp Reis ranks 14. Before him are Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Léon Walras, August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, Jan Neruda, and Julia Pastrana. After him are Norodom of Cambodia, Vasily Perov, Aleksis Kivi, Charles Spurgeon, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Kondō Isami. Among people deceased in 1874, Johann Philipp Reis ranks 7. Before him are Anders Jonas Ångström, Millard Fillmore, Jules Michelet, Adolphe Quetelet, François Guizot, and David Strauss. After him are Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, Josiah Warren, Marià Fortuny, Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, and Charles Gleyre.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Philipp Reis ranks 1,084 out of 7,253. Before him are Viktor Lutze (1890), Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden (1755), Joseph Pilates (1883), Erich Auerbach (1892), Pierre Littbarski (1960), and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886). After him are Arthur Scherbius (1878), Albert Speer (1934), William V, Duke of Bavaria (1548), Carl Reinecke (1824), Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698), and William, Duke of Nassau (1792).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Johann Philipp Reis ranks 13. Before him are Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Hans Lippershey (1570), Karl Drais (1785), Emile Berliner (1851), Adam Opel (1837), and Joseph Pilates (1883). After him are Alfred Krupp (1812), Theobald Boehm (1794), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Uziel Gal (1923), and Peter Henlein (1479).

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