INTRODUCTION
TIMELINE
LINKS
HISTORY
 

Bibliography:

Robert Hooke

    *Pg 211-Diary of Robert Hooke Edited by H.W. Robinson and W. Adams

    *The Diaries of Robert Hooke The Leonardo of London -R. Nichols-Robert Hooke- Life and *WorksPg 25

    *Gunther's "Early science in Oxford" Vol. 6 Pg 185

    *Gunther's "Early science in Oxford" Vol XI Pg 330-331

    From R.t. Gunther's "Early Science in Oxford" Vol.7 (p459)

Volta

    Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries , J.L. Heilbron

    The birth of the Mordern, by Paul Johnson HarperCollins 1991

    Michael Faraday 1821)(Pg57 Schrodinger's Kittens ,John and Mary Gribbin)

    John and Mary Gribbin -Pg57 Schrodinger's Kittens

    Bence-Jones -life and Letters of Faraday

    S.P. Thompson -Michael Faraday :His lifes and work

    Martin Thomas- Faradays discovery of Electro-magnetic induction

    Oxford Dictionary of Scientists, Oxford University Press 1999

    The greatest benfit to Man kind, by Ray Porter, Pg 403,W.W.Norton &Company 1997

Sir Humphry Davy

    The birth of the Mordern, by Paul Johnson HarperCollins 1991

    John and Mary Gribbin -Pg57 Schrodinger's Kittens

    S.P. Thompson -Michael Faraday :His lifes and work

Ampre

    A History of Classical Physics J. D. Bernal 1977 Barnes&Noble pg309

    Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries , J.L. Heilbron

    Early Electrodynamics : The first Law of Circulation-R.A.R. Tricker, Oxford 1965

    Oxford Dictionary of Scientists, Oxford University Press 1999

Henry

    Webster's American Biographies- M. Rothenberg-G&C Merriam Company Publishers-1974 Pg480

    American National Biography - Oxford University Press-1999-Pg 614

    Oxford Dictionary of Scientists, Oxford University Press 1999

Sir Charles Wheatstone

    Sir Charles Wheatstone, by Bowers , Brain

    Sir Charles Wheatstone, by Hubbard, Goeffrey 1977

    Cooke and Wheatstone and the invention of the electrical telegraph

    Quarterly journal of Science, Literature and the arts Pg. 344 to 351, published in 1827 "On the transmission of Musical sounds through solid liner conductors and on their subsequent reciprocation" in the journal of the royal institution

    Oxford Dictionary of Scientists, Oxford University Press 1999

    Timetables of Technology by Bryan Bunch and Alexander Hellemans,
    Simon and Schuster 1993

William Cooke

Samuel S.B. Morse

Alford Vail

De La Rive, Gassiot and Marrian

    De La Rive
    " Treatise on Electricity," by De La Rive benguigui, Isaacltrois, physiciens,generois of Europe, Savante Delaw

    J.P Marrian-Phili. Mag xxv. P.382; Inst., 1845, p.20; Arch. De l'Electr., v.p. 195
    De La Rive-"Treatise on Electricity," by De La Rive, i. P. 300
    Arch. de l' Electr. V. p. 200; Inst. 1846, p. 83; Comptes rendus, xx. P 1287; Comp.
    Rend. Xxii. P. 432; Pogg. Ann. Lxxv.p.637; Ann. De Chim. Et de Phys. Xxvi. P.158.
    Gassiot- see--"Treatise on Electricity," by De La Rive, i. P. 300

C.G. Page

    "Benjamin Silliman’s Journal April 5 1837" p.307
    The American Polytechnic journal

Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni

    Oxford Dictionary of Scientists- Pg 101 ,Oxford University Press- 1999

Edison and Alexander Graham Bell

    Infant mortality
    Dictionary of the 19th Century History- Pg. 504, pg. 432,pg305

    Austro-German telegraph union in 1862, and printed in the Journal of that society then reprinted in Diglers Polytechnisches Journal for 1863; vol.clxix pg 29.

    George B. Prescott- "The Speaking Telephone" published in 1884 by Appleton &
    Company New York City NY

    BELL, by Robert V. Bruce, 1973 Cornell University Press

Herman Von Helmholtz

    "On the Sensation of Tone" by- Herman Von Helmholtz published in 1863.
    The text of this lecture can be found in the Selected writings of Herman Von Helmholtz. Edited and with an introduction by Russel Kahn[1971] ."(P91). P99).

General

    The invention of the telephone predicted by the book of Saint John in the book of revelation by William Coldbrook1891
    The control of Carpenter Ants in Telephone poles 1937 by Friend, Roger, Boynton and Carlson

    Heros of the telegraph By J. Munro 1891

    Historical sketch of the Electric Telegraph 1852 by Alexander Jones

    Edison Telegraph Boy, by Edith C. Kenyon 1896

    History, theory and practice of the Electric telegram 1860 George B. Prescott

    A Reply , by Charles Wheatstone 1855

    The laying of the cable of the Ocean telegraph 1858 by John Mullaly

Yeates

    March 14th of 1865 Trinity College in Dublin., The Dublin Philosophical Society

    The Dublin Philosophical Society registers; log book with minutes of the meeting (found in the Trinity College the Dublin Philosophical Society records department upstairs across from the computer on the shelves behind the ash tray)

    S. Thompson " Phillipp Reis Inventor of the telephone

    Dublin Historical Record pg. 6-7 1943-1946

    Published quartile by the old Dublin Society Vol. VI No. 4 Sept-Nov 1944 by Thos H. Mason, M.R.I.A. Dublin Opticians and Instrument Makers

    Dr. Mollan 17 Pine law Black rock Dublin cmol@iol.ie

    Vulagar and Mechanick-J.E. Burnett A.D. Morrison-Low pg. 42,45,46, 139

    Device last seen at Clongowes Wood College

    Note* The Dublin Philosophical Society was later changed to the Elizabethan Society

Reis

    (1)-George B. Prescott- "The Speaking Telephone" published in 1884 by Appleton &
    Company New York City NY. p 9, - p 13

    (2)-Telegrapher May 22nd, vol. 5 No. 39, 1869 p 301- Editor Mr. Van Duzer

    (3)-Du Moncel - Le Telephone Le Microphone Le Phonographe 1878 p 11

    (4)-S. P. Thompson:"Phillip Reis Inventor of the Telephone" 1883, E. & F. Spon

    (5)-W. H. Preece,F.R.S. & J. Maier, Ph. D. The Telephone 1889 p Whittaker & Co

    (6)-Prof. A. E. Dolbear, The Telephone-Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and
    Sound as involved in action. 1877 Norwood Press

    (7)-Legat's report, 1862 Zeitschrift

    (8)-Dinglers's Polytechnisches Journal, vol. 168, p. 185.

    (9)-Polytechnisches Centralblatt, 1863, pp. 857-9.

    (10)-Dinglers's Polytechnisches Journal, vol. 169, p.399.

    (11)-Die Fortschritte der Physik, 1863, p. 96. Cosmos, December 25, 1863.

    (12)-Zeitschrift des Architectur und Ingenieur Vereins, vol. 12.

    (13)-Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 1865.

    (14)-Pisko, Die neueren Apparate der Akustik, Vienna, 1865, pp. 94, et seq.

    (15)-Electricity, by Ferguson, 1867, p. 257.

    (16)-The Manufacturer and Builder, May, 1869, vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 129, 130.

    (17)-Researches in Telephony,' Journal of Soc. of Telegr. Engineers, dec. 1877

    (18)-A.G. Bell - In support of his plea: patent, No. 174,456,
    dated March 7, 1876

    (19)-A letter from J.J. Storrow to Alexander Graham Bell enclosing a copy of a
    letter from Mr. Storrow to Mr. Scudder, relating to the Dolbear-Reis, Case..
    June 28, 1883.

    (20)-The letter form James J. Storrow. to Samuel H. Scudder-
    June 28, 1883.