Philipp Reis Inventor of the Telephone a Biographical Sketch With Documentary
Philipp Reis Inventor of the Telephone a Biographical Sketch With Documentary
Silvanus Phillips Thompson
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24. This instrument, though patented seven months after Bell's instrument, differs from it in no point of im- portance. Its armature was a thin plate of iron, elastic, and having an extended surface ; being, in fact, a tympanum. No one can examine the set of receiving instruments col- lected in Fig. 46 without being struck with the extraordinary similarity of design which pervades the entire series. In every one of the set there is an electro-magnet, . The function of which is to set an armatur...e * into vibration by attracting it with a variable force. In every one the armature is of a * Yet Bell's claim (British Patent Specification) runs: "I claim the production cf any given sound or sounds from the armature of tho receiving instrument. " M 2 164 PHILIPP REIS, material capable of magnetic induction ; that is to say, iron, steel, or equivalent material. In every one of them the arma- ture is either elastically mounted, or is in itself elastic. In every one of them (save only the two quite recent forms, F and /, which were intended not to speak, but to emit only one fixed musical note) there is an extended surface (either a sound- board or a tympanum) to communicate the vibrations to the air.
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